The spirit of 'seventy-six : the story of the American Revolution as told by participants /
edited by Henry Steele Commager; Richard B Morris.
- New York ; Evanston ; London : Harper & Row, [1967].
- lii, 1348 p. : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Includes index
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The fierce spirit of resistance -- Congress asserts the rights of Americans -- The war begins -- Bunker's Hill -- The battle for Boston -- The Canadian campaigns -- A great empire and little minds -- The great declaration -- The loyalists -- The struggle for democracy at home -- The battle for New York -- Bagging the fox -- The Burgoyne campaign -- Howe invades Pennsylvania -- France comes in -- England seeks reconciliation -- The patriots seize the initiative in the middle states -- Spies, treason and mutiny -- The home front in the war -- Health, hospitals and medicine -- Prisons and escapes -- Songs and ballads of the Revolution -- Sea battles and naval raids -- Privateering -- American diplomats on the vaunted scene of Europe -- War out of Niagara -- The conquest of the old Northwest -- The Redcoats carry the war to the South -- The second campaign to conquer the South -- The turn of the tide -- Virginia -- Yorktown : Washington's vindication -- Winning the peace -- Closing scenes
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