The spirit of 'seventy six volume 2 the story of the American Revolution as told by participants
The spirit of 76
Edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris
- New York Bobbs-Merrill Comp. 1958
- 663 - 1348 p.
- The spirit of seventy six Vol. II .
Includes Index and Bibliography
15. France comes in : America seeks foreign aid without entangling alliances ; France gives aid short of war ; France enters the war --
16. England seeks reconciliation : The attempt to woo Franklin ; The Carlisle Commission ; Forlorn hopes of peace --
17. The patriots seize the initiative in the middle states : General Prescott is captured ; Lafayette's abortive expedition to Canada ; Monmouth ; The Rhode Island campaign of 1778 ; Stony Point ; Paulus Hook ; Springfield ; Benedict Arnold fires New London --
18. Spies, treason and mutiny : Dr. Church goes over to the enemy ; Arson in America and England ; A regius professor remains loyal to his king ; Dr. Edward Bancroft gives the history of his career as a spy ; The treason of Benedict Arnold ; The capture and execution of André ; Mutiny --
19. The home front in the war : Munitions, supplies and impressment ; Holding the price and wages line ; Further efforts to hold the price line ; The issuance and control of the currency ; An end to depreciation: the forty-to-one formula ; The bank and the financier ; Profiteers and profiteering --
20. Health, hospitals and medicine : Setting up a medical establishment ; The ravages of smallpox on the expedition against Canada ; The breakdown of hospital services ; Dr. Shippen and Dr. Rush try to bring order out of chaos ; The impact of the war on medicine --
21. Prisons and escapes : Stormont rejects Franklin's plea for mercy to prisoners ; John Leach and his companions suffer in a Boston prison ; The sufferings of American prisoners in New York ; The horrors of the British prison ships ; Congress keeps the "convention" troops in America ; The sufferings of loyalist and British prisoners ; American prisoners in English gaols ; Captain Asgill is reprieved as a compliment to Louis XVI --
22. Songs and ballads of the Revolution : Patriot ; Loyalist and British --
23. Sea battles and naval raids : Founding the American navy ; Congress runs the navy ; Sandwich presides over the misfortunes of the British navy ; The naval war off the New England coast ; A submarine in New York waters? ; The naval war in foreign waters ; John Paul Jones ; The Trumbull and the Watt ; The protector and the Admiral Duff ; The expeditions of Captain John Barry --
24. Privateering : Boon or bane of the revolutionary cause? ; Some privateering adventures ; Captain Conyngham strikes at Britain from French bases --
25. American diplomats on the vaunted scene of Europe : The American commission is riddled with dissension ; Mission to Spain ; John Adams descends upon the Dutch --
26. War out of Niagara : Both sides enlist Indians ; Wyoming ; The Americans strike back: the Sullivan expedition ; The Americans strike back: the Brodhead expedition ; The final campaigns along the New York borderlands --
27. The conquest of the old Northwest : Kaskaskia and Vincennes: the first conquest ; The capture of Vincennes ; The fight for St. Louis ; Kentucky: war to the bitter end --
28. The Redcoats carry the war to the South : The Charleston expedition --
29. The second campaign to conquer the South : The fall of Savannah ; Advance and repulse in Georgia ; Prevost's Charleston expedition ; The Franco-American expedition to recapture Savannah ; The fall of Charleston ; The massacre at the Waxhaws ; Patriots whip Tories at Ramsour's Mill ; Pillage and civil war flame in South Carolina ; At Camden Gates's Northern Laurels turn to Southern Willows ; The patriot cause looks up: King's mountain --
30. The turn of the tide : Partisan warfare takes its toll ; Cowpens, the patriots' best-fought battle ; The hunter becomes the hunted: Guilford Courthouse ; The partisan role in the reconquest of South Carolina ; Hobkirk's Hill, the second battle of Camden ; The fall of the British outposts ; Eutaw Springs --
31. Virginia : General Arnold invades Virginia ; The fateful squabble between Clinton and Cornwallis ; Lafayette to the rescue --
32. Yorktown: Washington's vindication : Washington's strategy looks to the Chesapeake ; De Grasse's naval victory ; The siege ; Cornwallis surrenders --
33. Winning the peace : France seeks to dictate the American peace ; Britain sues for peace ; "The point of independence" ; The battle for the fisheries ; The settlement of the loyalist question ; The reception of the peace treaty --
34. Closing scenes : In England defeat shakes the foundations of monarchy ; The alternatives of dictatorship or republican government ; Washington's parting advice to the new nation ; "Peace made, a new scene opens."
Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer--the participants themselves--and in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers. Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views; treason and prison escapes; songs and ballads; the home front and diplomacy abroad. In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history.
Revolution--United States--1775-1783--Personal Narratives
History--United States--1775-1783--Sources
973.3082 Spi 15
Includes Index and Bibliography
15. France comes in : America seeks foreign aid without entangling alliances ; France gives aid short of war ; France enters the war --
16. England seeks reconciliation : The attempt to woo Franklin ; The Carlisle Commission ; Forlorn hopes of peace --
17. The patriots seize the initiative in the middle states : General Prescott is captured ; Lafayette's abortive expedition to Canada ; Monmouth ; The Rhode Island campaign of 1778 ; Stony Point ; Paulus Hook ; Springfield ; Benedict Arnold fires New London --
18. Spies, treason and mutiny : Dr. Church goes over to the enemy ; Arson in America and England ; A regius professor remains loyal to his king ; Dr. Edward Bancroft gives the history of his career as a spy ; The treason of Benedict Arnold ; The capture and execution of André ; Mutiny --
19. The home front in the war : Munitions, supplies and impressment ; Holding the price and wages line ; Further efforts to hold the price line ; The issuance and control of the currency ; An end to depreciation: the forty-to-one formula ; The bank and the financier ; Profiteers and profiteering --
20. Health, hospitals and medicine : Setting up a medical establishment ; The ravages of smallpox on the expedition against Canada ; The breakdown of hospital services ; Dr. Shippen and Dr. Rush try to bring order out of chaos ; The impact of the war on medicine --
21. Prisons and escapes : Stormont rejects Franklin's plea for mercy to prisoners ; John Leach and his companions suffer in a Boston prison ; The sufferings of American prisoners in New York ; The horrors of the British prison ships ; Congress keeps the "convention" troops in America ; The sufferings of loyalist and British prisoners ; American prisoners in English gaols ; Captain Asgill is reprieved as a compliment to Louis XVI --
22. Songs and ballads of the Revolution : Patriot ; Loyalist and British --
23. Sea battles and naval raids : Founding the American navy ; Congress runs the navy ; Sandwich presides over the misfortunes of the British navy ; The naval war off the New England coast ; A submarine in New York waters? ; The naval war in foreign waters ; John Paul Jones ; The Trumbull and the Watt ; The protector and the Admiral Duff ; The expeditions of Captain John Barry --
24. Privateering : Boon or bane of the revolutionary cause? ; Some privateering adventures ; Captain Conyngham strikes at Britain from French bases --
25. American diplomats on the vaunted scene of Europe : The American commission is riddled with dissension ; Mission to Spain ; John Adams descends upon the Dutch --
26. War out of Niagara : Both sides enlist Indians ; Wyoming ; The Americans strike back: the Sullivan expedition ; The Americans strike back: the Brodhead expedition ; The final campaigns along the New York borderlands --
27. The conquest of the old Northwest : Kaskaskia and Vincennes: the first conquest ; The capture of Vincennes ; The fight for St. Louis ; Kentucky: war to the bitter end --
28. The Redcoats carry the war to the South : The Charleston expedition --
29. The second campaign to conquer the South : The fall of Savannah ; Advance and repulse in Georgia ; Prevost's Charleston expedition ; The Franco-American expedition to recapture Savannah ; The fall of Charleston ; The massacre at the Waxhaws ; Patriots whip Tories at Ramsour's Mill ; Pillage and civil war flame in South Carolina ; At Camden Gates's Northern Laurels turn to Southern Willows ; The patriot cause looks up: King's mountain --
30. The turn of the tide : Partisan warfare takes its toll ; Cowpens, the patriots' best-fought battle ; The hunter becomes the hunted: Guilford Courthouse ; The partisan role in the reconquest of South Carolina ; Hobkirk's Hill, the second battle of Camden ; The fall of the British outposts ; Eutaw Springs --
31. Virginia : General Arnold invades Virginia ; The fateful squabble between Clinton and Cornwallis ; Lafayette to the rescue --
32. Yorktown: Washington's vindication : Washington's strategy looks to the Chesapeake ; De Grasse's naval victory ; The siege ; Cornwallis surrenders --
33. Winning the peace : France seeks to dictate the American peace ; Britain sues for peace ; "The point of independence" ; The battle for the fisheries ; The settlement of the loyalist question ; The reception of the peace treaty --
34. Closing scenes : In England defeat shakes the foundations of monarchy ; The alternatives of dictatorship or republican government ; Washington's parting advice to the new nation ; "Peace made, a new scene opens."
Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer--the participants themselves--and in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers. Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views; treason and prison escapes; songs and ballads; the home front and diplomacy abroad. In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history.
Revolution--United States--1775-1783--Personal Narratives
History--United States--1775-1783--Sources
973.3082 Spi 15