TY  - BOOK
AU  - Commager,Henry Steele
TI  - The spirit of 'seventy-six: the story of the American Revolution as told by participants 
PY  - 1967///]
CY  - New York, Evanston, London
PB  - Harper & Row
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Sources
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography; 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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