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21.Ibid., 248.
22.John W. Shy, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990), 150.
23.Ibid., 153.
24.McCullough, 1776, 265.
25.Schecter, The Battle for New York, 265.
26.Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 106.
27.Commager, The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six, 5.
Chapter 9: He That Stands by It Now, 1776
1.David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 159.
2.Samuel Stelle Smith, The Battle of Trenton (Monmouth Beach, NJ: Philip Freneau Press,1965), 15.
3.Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 270.
4.Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 143.
5.Ibid., 143.
6.Ibid., 218.
7.Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 74.
8.Henry Steele Commager, ed., The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 513.
9.Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 220.
10.Ibid., 241.
11.Commager, The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six, 513.
12.North Callahan, Henry Knox, General Washington’s General (New York: Rinehart, 1958), 91.
13.Puls, Henry Knox, 80.
14.Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 309.
15.Richard Wheeler, Voices of 1776 (New York, Crowell, 1972), 181.
16.Chernow, Washington, 281.
17.Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 332.
18.Ibid., 344.
19.Ibid., 353.
Chapter 10: A Continual Clap of Thunder, 1777
1.Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 253.
2.John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 223.
3.Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 124.
4.David Wilson, The Life of Jane McCrea, with an Account of Burgoyne’s Expedition in 1777 (New York: Baker, Goodwin, 1853), 79.
5.Henry Steele Commager, ed., The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 560.
6.Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War (New York: H. Holt, 1997), 276.
7.Matthew H. Spring, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), 18.
8.Ben Z. Rose, John Stark: Maverick General (Waverley, MA: TreeLine Press, 2007), 18.
9.Ibid., 100.
10.Gerald Howson, Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography (New York: Times Books, 1978), 162.
11.Ketchum, Saratoga, 288.
12.Ibid., 289.
13.Ibid., 248.
14.Rose, John Stark, 82.
15.Ibid., 120.
16.Michael P. Gabriel, The Battle of Bennington: Soldiers & Civilians (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2012), 73.
17.Spring, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only, 332.
18.Ketchum, Saratoga, 307.
19.Ibid., 312.
20.Commager, The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six, 573.
21.Gabriel, The Battle of Bennington, 102.
22.Ketchum, Saratoga, 329.
23.Ibid., 330.
24.Ibid., 324.
Chapter 11: Fight as Well as Brag, 1777
1.Paul David Nelson, Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 7.
2.George Athan Billias, ed., George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 287.
3.Nelson, Anthony Wayne, 34.
4.Nelson, Anthony Wayne, 2–3.
5.John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 249.
6.Ibid., 249–50.
7.Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 142.
8.Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 360.
9.Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 251.
10.Ibid., 252.
11.Nelson, Anthony Wayne, 59.
12.Ibid., 60.
13.Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 310.
14.Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 970.
15.Chernow, Washington, 311.
Chapter 12: Something More at Stake, 1777
1.Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 154.
2.Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York: Morrow, 1990), 351.
3.Paul David Nelson, General Horatio Gates: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 108.
4.Don Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 61.
5.Max M. Mintz, The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne & Horatio Gates (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 18.
6.Randall, Benedict Arnold, 350.
7.Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War (New York: H. Holt, 1997), 348.
8.Ibid., 363.
9.Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 510.
10.Christopher Duffy, The Military Experience in the Age of Reason (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), 163.
11.Ketchum, Saratoga, 363.
12.Christopher Hibbert, Redcoats & Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes (New York: Norton, 1990), 185.
13.Ward, The War of the Revolution, 511.
14.Ketchum, Saratoga, 368.
15.Ibid., 369.
16.Randall, Benedict Arnold, 359.
17.Nelson, General Horatio Gates, 134.
18.Ibid., 126.
19.Randall, Benedict Arnold, 362.
20.Ibid., 360.
21.Nelson, General Horatio Gates, 132.
22.Ketchum, Saratoga, 394.
23.Ibid., 398.
24.Henry Steele Commager, ed., The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 593.
25.Ketchum, Saratoga, 394.
26.Ibid., 399.
27.Ibid., 400.
28.Mintz, The Generals of Saratoga, 194.
29.Harlow G. Unger, Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010), 132.
30.Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan, 76.
31.Ketchum, Saratoga, 441.
Chapter 13: The Discipline of the Leggs, 1778
1.Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 543.
2.Wayne K. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), 128.
3.Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life (New York: Random House, 2005), 267.
4.Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter, 112–13.
5.Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 289.
6.Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 162.
7.Ibid., 165.
8.Ibid., 198.
9.Ibid., 159.
10.Ibid., 158.
11.David A. Clary, Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution (New York: Bantam Books, 2007), 117.
12.Paul David Nelson, Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 66.
13.John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 283.
14.Paul Douglas Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the American Army (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2008), 42.
15.Bruce Chadwick, The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America’s First Fight for Freedom (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2005), 29.
16.Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, 133.
17.Ibid., 89.
18.Ibid., 88.
19.Ibid., 109.
20.Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter, 201.
21.Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 293.
22.Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 336.
23.Ibid., 338.
24.Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, 132.
25.Harlow G. Unger, Lafayette (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002), 77.
26.Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, 162.
27.Lengel, General George Washington, 300.
28.Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, 125.
29.Joseph Plumb Martin, Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006), 72.
30.Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 130.
31.Nelson, Anthony Wayne, 82.
32.Ward, The War of the Revolution, 549.
Chapter 14: The Boldest Conduct, 1779
1.William R. Nester, George Rogers Clark: “I Glory in War” (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), 75.
2.August William Derleth, Vincennes: Portal to the West (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968), 56.
3.Nester, George Rogers Clark, 120.
4.Ibid., 138.
5.Derleth, Vincennes, 57.
6.Ibid., 68.
7.Nester, George Rogers Clark, 3.
8.Ibid., 313.
9.Barbara Graymont, The Iroquois in the American Revolution (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1972), 190.
10.John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 353.
11.Ibid., 346.
12.Charles Park Whittemore, A General of the Revolution, John Sullivan of New Hampshire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), 110.
13.Ibid., 115.
14.Ibid., 123.
15.Ibid., 125.
16.Ibid., 127.
17.Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 357.
18.Glenn Tucker, Mad Anthony Wayne and the New Nation: The Story of Washington’s Front-Line General (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1973), 162.
19.Graymont, The Iroquois in the American Revolution, 213.
20.Ibid., 218.
21.Whittemore, A General of the Revolution,147.
22.Joseph R. Fischer, A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign Against the Iroquois, July-September 1779 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997), 192.
23.Whittemore, A General of the Revolution,148.
24.Bruce Chadwick, George Washington’s War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2005), 328.
Chapter 15: Fate of Battle, 1780
1.George Athan Billias, ed., George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 196, 200, 206.
2.Ibid., 206.
3.David B. Mattern, Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 13.
4.Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 198.
5.Mattern, Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution, 95.
6.John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 426.
7.Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 203.
8.Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 427.
9.Ibid., 436.
10.John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas (New York: Wiley, 1997), 85.
11.Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 717.
12.George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, eds., Rebels and Redcoats (Cleveland: World Pub., 1957), 404.
13.Charles Bracelen Flood, Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times along the Road to Independence (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976), 288.
14.Ibid., 308.
15.Ibid., 315.
16.Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 102.
17.Ward, The War of the Revolution, 728.
18.Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 441.
19.Dan L. Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1993), 93.
20.Flood, Rise, and Fight Again, 328.
21.Ibid., 330.
22.Ibid., 337.
23.Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 375.
24.Paul David Nelson, General Horatio Gates: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 253.
25.Ibid., 239.
26.Flood, Rise, and Fight Again, 345.
27.Chernow, Washington, 352–53.
28.Ibid., 368–70.
29.Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 444–45.
30.Chernow, Washington, 378.
31.Ibid., 382.
32.Ibid., 382.
33.David A. Clary, Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution (New York: Bantam Books, 2007), 280.
34.Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York: Morrow, 1990), 457.
35.Ibid., 445.
36.Ibid., 572.
37.Carl Van Doren, Mutiny in January: The Story of a Crisis in the Continental Army Now for the First Time Fully Told from Many Hitherto Unknown or Neglected Sources, Both American and British (New York: Viking Press, 1943), 13.
38.Chernow, Washington, 370.
39.Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 1603.
40.Chernow, Washington, 389.
41.Van Doren, Mutiny in January, 216.
42.Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 159.
43.Howard H. Peckham, The War for Independence: A Military History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 158.
Chapter 16: Downright Fighting, 1780
1.Henry Lee, Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States (New York: University Publishing, 1870), 233.
2.John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2007), 458.
3.Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 461.
4.Dan L. Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1993), 105.
5.Hank Messick, King’s Mountain: The Epic of the Blue Ridge “Mountain Men” in the American Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 112.
6.Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 1427.
7.Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 462.
8.Messick, King’s Mountain, 134.
9.Ibid., 136.
10.Ibid., 136, 140.
11.Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, 110.
12.Messick, King’s Mountain, 167.
13.Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, 111.
14.Messick, King’s Mountain, 167.
15.Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 376.
16.Don Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 120.
17.Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, 124.
18.Richard M. Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution (New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 112–13.
19.Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan,132.
20.Lawrence Edward Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 55.
21.Ibid., 58.
22.Ibid., 80.
23.Ibid., 82.
24.Ibid., 89.
25.Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan,137.
26.Babits, A Devil of a Whipping, 102.
27.Ibid., 100.
28.Ibid., 123.
29.Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan,141.
30.Ibid., 132.
31.Babits, A Devil of a Whipping, 10.
32.Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan,143.
33.Ibid., 153, 155.
Chapter 17: War Is an Intricate Business, 1781
1.Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 127.
2.Ibid., 181.
3.Ibid., 227.
4.Nathanael Greene, The Papers of General Nathanael Greene (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976), 3:62.
5.Golway, Washington’s General, 232, 239.
