Band of Giants_The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence

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by Jack Kelly

death and later years, 245

  early life and education of, 123–4

  marriage of, 123

  and Paoli Massacre, 127–8

  physical appearance, 123

  on Washington, 148

  and Yorktown campaign, 215, 217–19

  Wayne, Mary “Polly,” 123–4, 129, 146–7

  Webster, James, 209

  Weeden, George, 223

  Whig, use of the term, 18

  White Plains, 94, 95, 99, 108, 172, 219

  Whitman, Walt, 247

  Wilkinson, James, 81–2, 138–9

  Williams, Otho, 204, 206–7

  Williamsburg, 221, 222, 224

  Wolff, James, 12

  Yorktown campaign, 215–31

  Yorktown, Siege of, 223–4, 225, 225–31

  About the Author

  Jack Kelly is a journalist, novelist, and historian. His most recent book, Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards & Pyrotechnics, was praised by The Baltimore Sun as “brilliantly succinct and excruciatingly powerful.” He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley, where much of the action of the Revolutionary War took place.

  BAND OF GIANTS Copyright © 2014 by Jack Kelly. All rights reserved. For information, address Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  http://www.us.macmillan.com

  Cover painting by Don Troiani/www.historicalimagebank.com

  Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

  The Library of Congress has catalogued the print edition as follows:

  Kelly, Jack.

  Band of giants : the amateur soldiers who won America’s independence / Jack Kelly.

  pages cm

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-1-137-27877-7 (alk. paper)

  1. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Campaigns. 2. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Biography. 3. Generals—United States—Biography. I. Title.

  E230.K45 2014

  973.3’3—dc23

  2014002004

  e-ISBN: 978-1-137-47456-8

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  Frontispiece: Title by H. Charles McBarron. Courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History.

  First edition: September 2014

 

 

 


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