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.
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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
