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34. New York Times, December 28, 1876; Kurlansky, Cod, pp. 114-115; Ketchum, The Winter Soldiers, pp. 250-251; Smith, The Battle of Trenton, p. 19.
35. Roads, The History and Traditions of Marblehead, pp. 67, 549-550, 553, 557, 559; Thomas Grant, Sr. And Thomas Grant, Jr., American Silversmiths, Ancestry.com, rootsweb, internet..
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38. Billias, General John Glover and His Marblehead Mariners, p. 68-69; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 1; Oliver Cromwell Biographical Sketch, Oliver Cromwell, Black History Society, Inc., Burlington, New Jersey; Mitnick, ed., New Jersey in the American Revolution, p. 129; Wiencek, An Imperfect God, p. 217; Boatner, Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, pp. 1198-1199; Paul Johnson, Heroes, From Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar to Churchill to De Gaulle, (New York: H
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39. New York Times, December 26, 1876; Jacob Needleman, The American Soul, Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders, (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003), pp. 86-87; Buchanan, The Road to Valley Forge, p. 161; Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause, The American Revolution, 1763-1789, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 366; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 222; Wright, TheContinental Army, p. 255; “The History of Johnson’s Ferry,” NJSHA; English, General Hugh Mercer, p. 84; Smith, The Battle of Trenton, p. 18; Hanser, The Glorious Hour of Lt. Monroe, pp. 137-138; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 137; Edgar, Campaign of 1776, p. 159; Lengel, Inventing George Washington, pp. 122-123; Chernow, Washington, p. 273; Joseph G. Bilby and Katherine Bilby Jenkins, “The Woodwards Rise Up: Revolution as Civil War in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1776-1777,” Patriots of the American Revolution, vol. 4, issue 3, (May/June 2011), p. 46; Harriett Clement Marble, James Monroe, Patriot and President, (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), p. 42.
40. Needleman, The American Soul, pp. 86-87; Chernow, Washington, pp. 271-272; William Tudor, Wikipedia, internet; Cox, A Proper Sense of Honor, pp. 16, 44.
41. William Tudor letter to Delia Jarvis, December 24, 1776, Tudor Family Papers, 1773-1822, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts; Needleman, The American Soul, pp. 86-87; Chernow, Washington, p. 273.
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44. Maryland Gazette, January 23, 1777; Billias, General John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, p. 7; Ferling, Almost A Miracle, p. 165; Boatner, Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, pp. 993-995.
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46. Thomas McCarthy Diary, William Croghan Papers, Lyman Copeland Draper Collection, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Buchanan, The Road to Valley Forge, p. 162.
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48. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 217; Don Troiani and James L. Kochan, Don Troiani’s Soldiers of the American Revolution, (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2007), p. 116; Bill, The Campaign of Princeton, p. 29.
49. A Young Patriot in the American Revolution, (Westvaco Corporation, 1981), pp. 78, 80; Smith, The Battle of Trenton, p. 19; Edgar, Campaign of 1776, p. 330.
50. Ketchum, The Winter Soldiers, pp. 210-211; Chernow, Washington, p. 270.
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53. Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon, p. 360.
54. Howard H. Peckham, The War of Independence, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958), pp. 52-53; Buchanan, The Road to Valley Forge, pp. 152, 158; Chadwick, George Washington’s War, pp. 13-15; “The History of Johnson’s Ferry,” NJSHS; Puls, Henry Knox, pp. 73-75; Theodore P. Savas and J. David Dameron, The New American Revolution Handbook, (El Dorado Hills: Savas Beatie, 2010), p. 5; Chernow, Washington, p. 273; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 397.
55. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, pp. 225, 397; Lord and Gamage, Marblehead, p. 122; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, pp. 136,138 note 2, 358, 371, 394; Bonk, Trentonand Princeton 1776-77, pp. 19-20; Tagney, The World Turned Upside Down, pp. 283-284; Farling, Almost A Miracle, p. 176; Chadwick, George Washington’s War, p. 15; Ketchum, TheWinter Soldiers, p. 252; “The History of Johnson’s Ferry,” NJSHS; “Washington Crossing Visitor Center Museum,” Information Guide, NJSHS; Smith, The Battle of Trenton, p. 20; Chernow, Washington, p. 273; Chastellux, Travels in North-America, p. 28.
56. Rodney, Diary of Captain Thomas Rodney, p. 51; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 391.
57. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 371.
58. Ibid., pp. 134, 371;Upham, A Memoir of General John Glover, p. 21; Boatner, The Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, p.657; Chadwick, George Washington’s War, p. 15; Hanser, The Glorious Hour of Lt. Monroe, p. 122.
59. Smith, Marines in the Revolution, pp. 94-96; Stephenson, Patriot Battles, p. 256; Lengel, General George Washington, p. 182; Billias, General John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, pp. 3, 6; Chadwick, George Washington’s War, p. 15; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, pp. 25-28, 209, 213; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, pp. 136, 358, 423; Chernow, Washington, p. 274.
60. Lengel, General George Washington, p. 182.
61. Lengel, This Glorious Struggle, p. 87.
62. Clark, All Cloudless Glory, p. 304.
63. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, pp. 216-217, 219; Buchanan, The Road to Valley Forge, pp. 152, 158; Lengel, General George Washington, p. 182; Bonk, Trenton and Princeton 1776-77, p. 20; Farling, Almost A Miracle, p. 176; Wood, Battles of the Revolutionary War, p. 62; Ketchum, The Winter Soldiers, p. 202; “The History of Johnson’s Ferry,” NJSHS; Smith, TheBattle of Trenton, p. 19; Hanser, The Glorious Hour of Lt. Monroe, pp. 136-138; Edgar, Campaign of 1776, p. 328.
64. Wood, Battles of the R
evolutionary War, p. 62; Buchanan, The Road to Valley Forge, p. 158; Chadwick, George Washington’s War, p. 16; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, pp. 374, 391; Hanser, The Glorious Hour of Lt. Monroe, p. 138; Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon, pp. 708, 734; Weller, “Guns of Destiny,” MA, p. 9; Smith, The Battle of Trenton, p. 20
65. A Young Patriot in the American Revolution, p. 80; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 391; Trenton, The Battle of Trenton, p. 20.
66. New York Times, January 18, 1862; Chadwick, George Washington’s War, p. 15; Edgar, Campaign of 1776, p. 328; Chernow, Washington, pp. 270-273.
67. Bill, The Campaign of Princeton, pp. 13, 17; New York Times, December 26, 1876; Hanser, The Glorious Hour of Lt. Monroe, p. 111.
68. A Young Patriot in the American Revolution, p. 80; Hanser, The Glorious Hour of Lt. Monroe, pp. 83, 137.
69. Bellamy, The Private Life of George Washington, p. 194.
70. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 139; Rose, Washington’s War, p. 81; Hanser, The Glorious Hour of Lt. Monroe, pp. 110-111, 137.
Chapter II
1. Bellamy, The Private Life of George Washington, p. 183.
2. Lengel, This Glorious Struggle, p. 87; Chernow, Washington, p. 274; Fischer, Washington’sCrossing, p. 209; Clark, All Cloudless Glory, p. 304..
3. Royster, Light-Horse Harry Lee, p. 201.
4. Bellamy, The Private Life of George Washington, p. 204.
5. Ward, The War of the Revolution, p. 295.
6. Elisha Bostwick Memoir, YUL.
7. Chernow, Washington, p. 274; Ward, The War of the Revolution, p. 295; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 99, 120; Bellamy, The Private Life of George Washington, p. 148; Gragg, By the Hand of Providence, pp. 5-91.
8. Gragg, By the Hand of Providence, p. 91.
9. Johnson, Heroes, p. 119.
10. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 207.
11. Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, p. 102.
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