List of Illustrations Series Foreword Preface and Acknowledgments Chronology Prologue: "In Arms and in Motion": The Origins of a War Chapter 1. Fortunes of War: Patriot High Tide and Imperial Counterattack Chapter 2. New Realities, New Challenges: From Colonial Rebellion to World War Chapter 3. Imperial Reset: New Strategy, New Problems Chapter 4. Patriot Nadir: War without End, 1780 Chapter 5. The Wars within the War: Stark Challenges, Dark Realities Chapter 6. Fortunes of War: The Southern Campaigns Chapter 7. Yorktown and Beyond Epilogue: A War in Retrospect Analytical Essays Defining Moments: The Battle of Trenton Reconsidered: Did a Raid Really Save the Revolution? Perspectives Essay: "Do Not Quite Despair": Patriot Logistics and the Struggle for Victory Counterfactual Essay: The "Indispensable Man": Would the Revolution Have Succeeded without George Washington? Biographical Essays Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) John Barry (1745-1803) Joseph Brant or Thayendanegea (1743-1807) Dragging Canoe (ca.
1738-1792) Johann Ewald (1744-1813) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Bernardo de Gálvez (1746-1786) Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) William Livingston (1723-1790) Flora MacDonald (1722-1790) Joseph Plumb Martin (1760-1850) Robert Morris (1734-1806) Frederick North, Lord North (1732-1792) Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) Comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807) Peter Salem (ca. 1750-1816) Deborah Samson (1760-1827) Han Yerry Tewahangarahken (ca. 1724-ca. 1794) Colonel Tye, or Titus Cornelius (ca. 1753-1780) Primary Documents Speech of Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775, Richmond, Virginia Chief Dragging Canoe Warns against Land Treaties with the Americans, 1775 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775 George III Closes Parliament with Observations on America, 1776 General Washington Reports a Grim Military Situation, December 1776 Thomas Paine, The American Crisis , No. 1 John McCarter Recalls the Death in Action of Two of His Pupils John Laurens Argues for the Emancipation and Enlistment of Black Troops, February 2, 1778 Captain George Hanger on the Eve of Battle, June 27, 1778 The Reverend Nicholas Collin Despairs as Civil War Rends His Congregation, 1778 Two Songs, Two Sides "I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!" John Paul Jones Battles HMS Serapis The Ladies of Trenton Raise Funds for the Continental Army, July 4, 1780 Lieutenant Colonel Francis Barber Laments the State of the New Jersey Troops, February 28, 1781 Nathanael Greene Decides to Take the War into South Carolina, 1781 Thomas Jefferson Describes Cornwallis's Occupation of Elkhill Plantation, 1781 Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe Learns He Must Surrender at Yorktown Edward Gibbon Explains the British Loss of the American Colonies Joseph Plumb Martin Recalls His Discharge from the Army, 1783 George Washington Bids Farewell to the Continental Army, November 2, 1783 Annotated Bibliography Index.