• Introduction
• The business and economic world of the late colonial printing trade
• A trade under threat : printers and the stamp act crisis
• The business of protest : printing against empire
• The collision of business and politics : 1774-1775
• Patriots, loyalists, and the perils of wartime printing
• Rebuilding print networks for the new nation
• Conclusion.

During the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a crucial role as a forum for public debate. In Revolutionary Networks, Joseph M. Adelman argues that printers-artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade-used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization. Going into the printing offices of colonial America to explore how these documents were produced, Adelman shows how printers balanced their own political beliefs and interests alongside the commercial interests of their businesses, the customs of the printing trade, and the prevailing mood of their communities. Adelman describes how these laborers repackaged oral and manuscript compositions into printed works through which political news and opinion circulated. Drawing on a database of 756 printers active during the Revolutionary era, along with a rich collection of archival and printed sources, Adelman surveys printers' editorial strategies. Moving chronologically through the era of the American Revolution and to the war's aftermath, he details the development of the networks of printers and explains how they contributed to the process of creating first a revolution and then the new nation. By underscoring the important and intertwined roles of commercial and political interests in the development of revolutionary rhetoric, this book essentially reframes our understanding of the American Revolution. Printers, Adelman argues, played a major role as mediators who determined what rhetoric to amplify and where to circulate it. Offering a unique perspective on the American Revolution and early American print culture, Revolutionary Networks reveals how these men and women managed political upheaval through a commercial lens.
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• Introduction
• Treason in colonial Pennsylvania
• Resistance and treason, 1765-1775
• Treason against America, 1775-1776
• From independence to invasion, 1776-1778
• The winding path to the courthouse, 1778
• The Philadelphia treason trials, 1778-1779 : forming the jury
• The Philadelphia treason trials, 1778-1779 : trial and deliberation
• Resentment and betrayal, 1779-1781
• Peace, the constitution, and rebellion, 1781-1800
• Conclusion.

The Trials of Allegiance examines the law of treason during the American Revolution: a convulsive, violent civil war in which nearly everyone could be considered a traitor, either to Great Britain or to America. Drawing from extensive archival research in Pennsylvania, one of the main centers of the revolution, Carlton Larson provides the most comprehensive analysis yet of the treason prosecutions brought by Americans against British adherents: through committees of safety, military tribunals, and ordinary criminal trials. Although popular rhetoric against traitors was pervasive in Pennsylvania, jurors consistently viewed treason defendants not as incorrigibly evil, but as fellow Americans who had made a political mistake. This book explains the repeated and violently controversial pattern of acquittals. Juries were carefully selected in ways that benefited the defendants, and jurors refused to accept the death penalty as an appropriate punishment for treason. The American Revolution, unlike many others, would not be enforced with the gallows. More broadly, Larson explores how the Revolution's treason trials shaped American national identity and perceptions of national allegiance. He concludes with the adoption of the Treason Clause of the United States Constitution, which was immediately put to use in the early 1790s in response to the Whiskey Rebellion and Fries's Rebellion. In taking a fresh look at these formative events, The Trials of Allegiance reframes how we think about treason in American history, up to and including the present.
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• Introduction: A lawyers' revolution
• "The worst instrument of arbitrary power"
• "The alienation of the affection of the colonies"
• "My dear countrymen rouse yourselves"
• "A right which nature has given to all men"
• "That these colonies are ... free and independent states"
• Conclusion: The legacy of the lawyers' American Revolution.

The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that key protagonists in the story of American independence were members of the bar with extensive practices. The American Revolution was, in fact, a lawyers' revolution. Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer broaden our understanding of the role that lawyers played in framing and resolving the British imperial crisis. The revolutionary lawyers, including John Adams's idol James Otis, Jr., Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, and Virginians Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, along with Adams and others, deployed the skills of their profession to further the public welfare in challenging times. They were the framers of the American Revolution and the governments that followed. Loyalist lawyers and lawyers for the crown also participated in this public discourse, but because they lost out in the end, their arguments are often slighted or ignored in popular accounts. This division within the colonial legal profession is central to understanding the American Republic that resulted from the Revolution.
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• Introduction
• No turning back
• Childhood hamlet
• The Harvard years
• Speckled monster
• New beginnings
• Acts of violence
• Unsheath thy quill
• From red fields to crimson cobblestones
• A time to mourn
• A bitter crew
• Resolved
• Joseph Warren's ride
• Hill of lamentations
• Founding mourners
• Epilogue
• Warren's legacy.

A detailed portrait of Founding Father, Dr. Joseph Warren, examines his work as an architect of the colonial rebellion, before his hero's death at Bunker Hill obscured his essential role in America's independence. Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Yet after his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence. Christian Di Spigna's definitive new biography of Warren is a loving work of historical excavation, the product of two decades of research and scores of newly unearthed primary-source documents that have given us this forgotten Founding Father anew. Following Warren from his farming childhood and years at Harvard through his professional success and political radicalization to his role in sparking the rebellion, Di Spigna's thoughtful, judicious retelling not only restores Warren to his rightful place in the pantheon of Revolutionary greats, it deepens our understanding of the nation's dramatic beginnings.
One of the Founding Fathers, Dr. Joseph Warren's death at Bunker Hill obscured his essential role in America's independence. An architect of the colonial rebellion, Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party. His incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Di Spigna not only restores Warren to his rightful place in the pantheon of Revolutionary greats, he deepens our understanding of the nation's dramatic beginnings. -- adapted from dust jacket

"Before the world knew them as Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, young Alex and Eliza fell in love amidst the turmoil of the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover; EUTAW SPRINGS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter One
• Commanders and Personalities; Chapter Two
• The War in the Carolinas and the March to Eutaw Springs; Chapter Three
• First Encounters; Chapter Four
• The Battle Develops; Chapter Five
• British Resurgence; Chapter Six
• Aftermath; Epilogue; Appendix One
• Battlefield Archaeology, Preservation, and Tour; Appendix Two
• Unit Strengths and Losses, Officer Casualties, and the Return of the Army; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

The Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist regiments. Although its outcome was seemingly inconclusive, the battle, fought near present-day Eutawville, South Carolina, contained all the elements that defined the war in the South. In Eutaw Springs: The Final Battle of the American Revolution's Southern Campaign, Robert M. Dunkerly and Irene B. Boland tell the story of this lesser known and under-studied battle of the Revolutionary War's Southern Campaign. Shrouded in myth and misconception, the battle has also been overshadowed by the surrender of Yorktown. Eutaw Springs represented lost opportunities for both armies. The American forces were desperate for a victory in 1781, and Gen. Nathanael Greene finally had the ground of his own choosing. British forces under Col. Alexander Stewart were equally determined to keep a solid grip on the territory they still held in the South Carolina lowcountry. In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, both armies sustained heavy casualties with each side losing nearly 20 percent of its soldiers. Neither side won the hard-fought battle, and controversies plagued both sides in the aftermath. Dunkerly and Boland analyze the engagement and its significance within the context of the war's closing months, study the area's geology and setting, and recount the action using primary sources, aided by recent archaeology.
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• Lake Champlain, Upper Hudson River, and lower Quebec
• Mohawk region
• The Wyoming and Wyalusing Campaigns
• New York's midwestern frontier
• Back in the Mohawk region.

"Following a disastrous campaign in 1777, the alliance between the Six Nations and the British Crown became seriously strained. Relations were made even more difficult by the hands-off stance of Quebec's governor, General Guy Carleton, which led to the Native leaders developing their own strategies and employing traditional tactics, leading to a ferocious series of attacks on the frontiers of Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania, supported by Loyalist and Regular troops. Among these were two infamous actions, referred to as "massacres" by American historians--attacks on the Wyoming and Cherry Valleys. This destructive campaign prompted the Continental Congress to mount three major retributive expeditions against the territories of the Six Nations and their allies the following year. In Fire and Desolation, Gavin Watt details individual historical conflicts and illustrates the crushing tactical expertise of the Senecas and their American allies and provides a fresh perspective on Canada's involvement in the American Revolution and the unfolding events of 1778"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Enlightenment and religion between Scotland and America
• "A road to distinction very different from that of his more successful companions": Augustinian piety in Witherspoon's Scotland
• "Of local and temporary reformation, local and occasional depravation": Kirk divisions and American prospects at midcentury
• "The bulwark of the religion and liberty of America": Presbyterian revivalism and American higher education before Witherspoon
• "All the conclusions drawn from these principles must be vague": American moral philosophy after Witherspoon
• "When their fathers have fallen asleep": domestic culture, public virtue, and the power of language
• "Every one of them full of the old Cameronian resisting sentiments": piety, Anglo-Scottish union, and American independence
• "How far the magistrate ought to interfere in matters of religion": public faith and the ambiguity of political representation after 1776
• "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man": John Witherspoon, James Madison, and the American Zion": Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century.

In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelicalPopular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of NewJersey's sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored constitutional architectJames Madison as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, hewas the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence. AlthoughWitherspoon is often thought to be the chief conduit of moral sense philosophyin America, Mailer's comprehensive analysis of this founding father'swritings demonstrates the resilience of his evangelical beliefs. Witherspoon'sPresbyterian evangelicalism competed with, combined with, and even supersededthe civic influence of Scottish Enlightenment thought in the BritishAtlantic world. John Witherspoon's American Revolution examines the connectionbetween patriot discourse and long-standing debates-already central to the1707 Act of Union-about the relationship among piety, moral philosophy, and political unionism. In Witherspoon's mind, Americans became differentfrom other British subjects because more of them had been awakenedto the sin they shared with all people. Paradoxically, acute consciousness oftheir moral depravity legitimised their move to independence by making ita concerted moral action urged by the Holy Spirit. Mailer's exploration ofWitherspoon's thought and influence suggests that, for the founders in hiscircle, civic virtue rested on personal religious awakening.
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• Family pilgrimage
• Family, war, and order
• The backcountry militia
• Defending the new order, 1777-1779
• Liberty and virtue in a conquered land
• The "brave and valuable" Colonel Pickens : the Cowpens campaign
• The North Carolina campaign
• Fighting his way back home
• Ninety Six and Eutaw
• A state of alarm and confusion
• Rebuilding civil society
• General Pickens, Indian Treaty commissioner
• The struggle for peace
• The strong hand of government, 1789-1793
• War, peace, and corruption, 1793-1797
• Every thing that was possible for men of honor to do
• Retirement and looking back.

Andrew Pickens (1739-1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the Patriot cause, and struggles over Indian territorial boundaries on the southern frontier. Combining insights from military and social history, Andrew argues that while Pickens's actions consistently reaffirmed the authority of white men, he was also determined to help found the new republic based on broader principles of morality and justice.After the war, Pickens sought a peaceful and just relationship between his country and the southern Native American tribes and wrestled internally with the issue of slavery. Andrew suggests that Pickens's rise to prominence, his stern character, and his sense of duty highlight the egalitarian ideals of his generation as well as its moral shortcomings--all of which still influence Americans' understanding of themselves.
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• The British violate their terms and rule by edict
• A proud and haughty Scot takes command of Charleston
• A fierce and unrelenting soldier comes in from the field
• "I do not mean to desert the cause of America"
• The captor becomes the captive
• "The imminent and shocking doom of the most unfortunate Mr. Hayne"
• "We seriously lament the necessity of such a severe expedient"
• Rawdon's fantastic shipboard recollections
• "In South Carolina no one even knows where he is buried"
• A survey of the story of Isaac Hayne in art and literature.

In 1781 South Carolina patriot militiamen played an integral role in helping the Continental army reclaim their state from its British conquerors. Martyr of the American Revolution is the only book-length treatment that examines the events that set an American militia colonel on a disastrous collision course with two British officers, his execution in Charleston, and the repercussions that extended from the battle lines of South Carolina to the Continental Congress and across the Atlantic to the halls of British Parliament. On August 4, 1781, in Charleston, South Carolina, the British army hanged Col. Isaac Hayne for treason. Rather than a strict chronological retelling of the events, which led to his execution during the British occupation of Charleston, what is offered instead is a consideration of factors, independently set in motion that culminated in the demise of a loving father and devout patriot. Hayne was the most prominent American executed by the British for treason. He and his two principal antagonists, Lt. Col. Nisbet Balfour and Lt. Col. Francis Lord Rawdon, were unwittingly set on a collision course that climaxed in an act that sparked perhaps the most notable controversy of the war. Martyr of the American Revolution sheds light on why two professional soldiers were driven to commit a seemingly wrongheaded and arbitrary deed that halted prisoner exchange and nearly brought disastrous consequences to captive British officers. The death of a patriot in the cause of liberty was not a unique occurrence, but the unusually well-documented events surrounding the execution of Hayne and the involvement of his friends and family makes his story compelling and poignant. Unlike young Capt. Nathan Hale, who suffered a similar fate in 1776, Hayne did not become a folk hero. What began as local incident, however, became an international affair that was debated in Parliament and the Continental Congress.
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• Tory-hunting
• Britain's dilemma
• Rubicon
• Plundering protectors
• Violated bodies
• Slaughterhouses
• Black holes
• Skiver them!
• Town-destroyer
• Americanizing the war
• Man for man
• Returning losers.

"The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this ... account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war--one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand"-- Amazon.com.

"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: As well as I can recollect
• Answer the purpose
• A strong desire to enlist
• My father caused me to enlist
• He took his father's place
• Fellow citizens.

Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, Caroline Cox reconstructs the lives and stories of this young subset of early American soldiers, focusing on how these boys came to join the army and what they actually did in service. Giving us a rich and unique glimpse into colonial childhood, Cox traces the evolution of youth in American culture in the late eighteenth century, as the accepted age for children to participate meaningfully in society-not only in the military-was rising dramatically.Drawing creatively on sources, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, Caroline Cox offers a vivid account of what life was like for these boys both on and off the battlefield, telling the story of a generation of soldiers caught between old and new notions of boyhood.
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• "A work of difficulty": communication networks, newspapers, and the common cause
• Interlude: the "shot heard 'round the world" revisited
• "Britain has found means to unite us": 1775
• Merciless savages, domestic insurrectionists, and foreign mercenaries: independence
• "By the American Revolution you are now free": sticking together in trying times
• "It is the cause of heaven against hell": to the Carlisle Commission, 1777-1778
• Interlude: Franklin and Lafayette's "Little book"
• "A striking picture of barbarity": Wyoming to the disaster at Savannah, 1778-1779
• "This class of Britain's heroes": From the fall of Charleston to Yorktown
• "The substance is truth": after Yorktown, 1782-1783
• "New provocations": The political and cultural consequences of revolutionary war stories.

"In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages, " the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic"-- Provided by publisher.

• The American revolution: South Carolina's first civil war
• 1782: the new state government confronts its loyalists
• Hope for reconciliation: how loyalists built their case for reintegration
• Uneasy neighbors to trusted friends: how loyalists and their allies built reconciliation
• (Mis)remembering the founding moment: we are all patriots now
• Epilogue: a walk through historic Charleston.

The American Revolution was a vicious civil war fought between families and neighbors. Nowhere was this truer than in South Carolina. Yet, after the Revolution, South Carolina's victorious Patriots offered vanquished Loyalists a prompt and generous legal and social reintegration. From Revolution to Reunion investigates the way in which South Carolinians, Patriot and Loyalist, managed to reconcile their bitter differences and reunite to heal South Carolina and create a stable foundation for the new United States to become a political and economic leader. Rebecca Brannon considers rituals and emotions, as well as historical memory, to produce a complex and nuanced interpretation of the reconciliation process in post-Revolutionary South Carolina, detailing how Loyalists and Patriots worked together to heal their society. She frames the process in a larger historical context by comparing South Carolina's experience with that of other states. Brannon highlights how Loyalists apologized but also went out of their way to serve their neighbors and to make themselves useful, even vital, members of the new experiment in self-government and liberty ushered in by the Revolution. Loyalists built on existing social ties to establish themselves in the new Republic, and they did it successfully. By 1784 the state government reinstated almost all the Loyalists who had stayed, as the majority of Loyalists had reinscribed themselves into the postwar nation. Brannon argues that South Carolinians went on to manipulate the way they talked about Loyalism in public to guarantee that memories would not be allowed to disturb the peaceful reconciliation they had created. South Carolinians succeeded in creating a generous and lasting reconciliation between former enemies, but in the process they unfortunately downplayed the dangers of civil war-which may have made it easier for South Carolinians to choose another civil war.
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• V. 1. 1764-1772
• v. 2. 1773-1776.

"From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thirty-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. Here, in the first volume of a two-volume set, are nineteen works from the trans-Atlantic debate triggered by Parliament's imposition of new taxes and regulations designed to reform the empire. What begins as a controversy about the origin and function of colonies ... quickly becomes a deeper dispute about the nature of political liberty itself"-- Jacket flap.

• Introduction / Patrick Griffin
• "The constant snare of the fear of man": authority and violence in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / Andrew Cayton
• Destroying and reforming Canaan: making America British / Patrick Griffin
• "Not by force or violence": religious violence, anti-Catholicism, and the rights of conscience in the early national United States / Chris Beneke
• Government without arms; arms without government: the case of Pennsylvania / Jessica Choppin Roney
• Stamps and popes: rethinking the role of violence in the coming of the American Revolution / Peter C. Messer
• Social death and slavery : the logic of political association and the logic of chattel slavery in revolutionary America / Peter Thompson
• Violence and the limits of the political community in revolutionary Pennsylvania / Kenneth Owen
• Whiskey chaser: democracy and violence in the debate over the democratic-republican societies and the Whiskey Rebellion / Jeffrey L. Pasley
• Escaping insecurity: the American founding and the control of violence / David C. Hendrickson
• American Hercules: militant sovereignty and violence in the democratic-republican imagination, 1793-1795 / Matthew Rainbow Hale
• The Battle of Fallen Timbers: an assertion of U.S. sovereignty in the Atlantic world along the banks of the Maumee River / John C. Kotruch
• Epilogue / Peter Onuf.

Between Sovereignty and Anarchy considers the conceptual and political problem of violence in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic, charting an innovative approach to the history of the American Revolution. Its editors and contributors contend that existing scholarship on the Revolution largely ignores questions of power and downplays the Revolution as a contest over sovereignty. Contributors employ a variety of methodologies to examine diverse themes, ranging from how Atlantic perspectives can redefine our understanding of revolutionary origins; to the ways in which political culture, mobilization, and civil-war-like violence were part of the revolutionary process; to the fundamental importance of state formation for the history of the early republic. The editors skillfully meld these emerging currents together to produce a new perspective on the American Revolution, revealing how America-first as colonies, then as united states-reeled between poles of anarchy and sovereignty. This interpretation-gleaned from essays on frontier bloodshed, religion, civility, slavery, loyalism, mobilization, early national political culture, and warmaking-provides a needed stimulus to a field that has not strayed beyond the bounds of ""rhetoric versus reality"" for more than a generation. Between Sovereignty and Anarchy raises foundational questions about how we are to view the American Revolution and the type of experimental democracy that emerged in its wake.
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• A perfect purgatory: recruitment in the Scottish highlands
• Spirited martialists: the highlander as military laborer
• The same as other civilized people: colonial points of contact
• The blessing of peace: demobilization
• Land and interest in the Gaelic Atlantic world
• The soldier and highland culture.

More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.
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• Contents
• List of Illustrations ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction 1
• 1 Truths That Are Not Self-Evident: The Revolution in Political Speech 17
• 2 We Have Not Yet Begun to Write: Historians and Founders Chic 49
• 3 We the Tourists: The Revolution at Museums and Historical Sites 85
• 4 Give Me Liberty's Kids: How the Revolution Has Been Televised and Filmed 125
• 5 To Re-create a More Perfect Union: Originalism, the Tea Party, and Reenactors 165
• Conclusion 201
• Further Readings 213
• Index 237
• About the Author 253.
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Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. TheAmerican Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards andas small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's foundingmoment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history: morethan any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation'saspirations. Americans' increased fascination with the Revolution over the pasttwo decades represents more than interest in the past. It's also a site to workout the present, and the future. Whatare we using the Revolution to debate? In Fightingover the Founders, Andrew M. Schocket explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, andreenactors portray the American Revolution. Identifying competing"essentialist" and "organicist" interpretations of the American Revolution, Schocket shows how today's memories of the American Revolution revealAmericans' conflicted ideas about class, about race, and about gender-as wellas the nature of history itself. Fighting over the Founders plumbsour views of the past and the present, and illuminates our ideas of what UnitedStates means to its citizens in the new millennium.
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• Introduction: The disappearance of the loyalists
• The DePeyster tradition
• Canadian exile
• Sibling relations
• Building a fortune
• Preparing the next generation
• Continuing the tradition
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: DePeyster genealogy 1
• Appendix B: DePeyster genealogy 2
• Appendix C: DePeyster genealogy 3
• Appendix D: DePeyster genealogy 4
• Appendix E: DePeyster genealogy 5.

"Challenges the traditional perception that Loyalists were ostracized as traitors to the United States, after the American Revolution. The DePeyster family of New York was one of the first families of New Amsterdam, ranking among the wealthiest of New York during the early days of the American Republic. The DePeysters were also unapologetic Loyalists, serving in the King's forces during the American Revolution. After the war, the four sons left the United States for Canada and Great Britain. Ten years later, one son, Frederick DePeyster, returned to New York, embraced his Loyalist past, and utilized his British connections to become a prominent and successful merchant. The DePeysters went on to become true patriots, zealously supporting US interests in the War of 1812. This book examines the forces at work in the lives of the DePeyster family and the decisions they made to navigate their way from loyal subjects of the British crown to loyal citizens of the United States. How this transformation occurred challenges many of the preconceived ideas we hold both about the Revolution and the formation of the American identity in the years following the war"--Publisher's website.

On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,000. Lafayette's arrival in 1824 coincided with one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history. Congress had just fought its first epic battle over slavery, and the threat of a Civil War loomed. But Lafayette, belonging to neither North nor South, to no political party or faction, was a walking, talking reminder of the sacrifices and bravery of the revolutionary generation and what they wanted the country to be. His return was not just a reunion with his beloved Americans, it was a reunion for Americans with their own astonishing singular past.

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The average American knows little or nothing of the great service rendered by Admiral de Grasse, a French admiral, to the cause of American independence in the battle off Cape Henry in 1781. The battle off Cape Henry had ultimate effects more important than those of Waterloo. De Grasse's action entailed upon the British the final loss of the thirteen colonies in America. This biography by Charles Lee Lewis places this supremely important naval battle off the Virginia Capes in its proper historical perspective, and gives de Grasse the full credit for rendering the aid which made possible the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Washington fully recognised this aid, when he wrote to de Grasse following the surrender of Cornwallis and expressed his gratitude "in the name of America for the glorious event for which she is indebted to you." Without de Grasse's victory all the military efforts on land made by Rochambeau, Lafayette, and Washington would have been in vain. The battle off Cape Henry was only one of numerous battles fought by this dashing Gallic sea captain. Over fifty years of his long life, 1722-1788, were spent in the service of Louis XV and Louis XVI, in the Mediterranean, in India, on the North American coast, and in the West Indies. He fought in all the wars of his day, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, and the War of the American Revolution which developed into a general European struggle.
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• The coming of the American Revolution
• Places of the American Revolution
• 1. Boston Common, Massachusetts
• 2. Faneuil Hall, Massachusetts
• 3. Old State House, Massachusetts
• 4. Old South Meeting House, Massachusetts
• 5. Carpenters' Hall, Pennsylvania
• 6. Old North Church, Massachusetts
• 7. Buckman Tavern, Massachusetts
• 8. Colonel James Barrett Farm, Massachusetts
• 9. Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts
• 10. Fort Ticonderoga, New York
• 11. Crown Point, New York
• 12. Independence Hall and Yard, Pennsylvania
• 13. Bunker Hill, Massachusetts
• 14. Old Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 15. Cambridge Common Encampment, Massachusetts
• 16. Gloucester, Massachusetts
• 17. Edmund Fowle House, Massachusetts
• 18. Fort Western, Maine
• 19. Williamsburg Powder Magazine, Virginia
• 20. Great Bridge, Virginia
• 21. Marblehead Town House, Massachusetts
• 22. Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts
• 23. Moores Creek, North Carolina
• 24. Halifax, North Carolina
• 25. Nikwasi, North Carolina
• 26. Charleston, South Carolina
• 27. Independence Hall and Yard, Pennsylvania
• 28. Bentley/Conference House, New York
• 29. Pell's Point, New York
• 30. Valcour Island, New York
• 31. Newport, Rhode Island
• 32. Fort Washington, New York
• 33. Fort Lee, New Jersey
• 34. Mount Holly, New Jersey
• 35. Thompson-Neely House, Pennsylvania
• 36. Trenton, New Jersey
• 37. Trenton Barracks, New Jersey
• 38. Princeton, New Jersey
• 39. Nassau Hall, New Jersey
• 40. Morristown, New Jersey
• 41. Ridgefield and Compo Hill, Connecticut
• 42. Keeler Tavern, Connecticut
• 43. Fort St. Mark, Florida
• 44. Thomas Creek, Florida
• 45. Fort Tonyn and Alligator Creek Bridge, Florida
• 46. Fort Ticonderoga, New York
• 47. Mount Independence, Vermont
• 48. Hubbardton, Vermont
• 49. Elijah West's Tavern, Vermont
• 50. Skenesborough, New York
• 51. Fort Ann, New York
• 52. Fort Edward, New York
• 53. Bennington, New York
• 54. Fort Stanwix, New York
• 55. Oriskany, New York
• 56. Fort Ticonderoga and Lake George, New York
• 57. Freeman's Farm at Saratoga, New York
• 58. Forts Clinton and Montgomery, New York
• 59. Abraham Van Gaasbeek/Senate House, New York
• 60. Bemis Heights at Saratoga, New York
• 61. The Siege of Saratoga, New York
• 62. Hale-Byrnes House, New Jersey
• 63. Brandywine, Pennsylvania
• 64. Paoli, Pennsylvania
• 65. Occupation and Evacuation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 66. Peter Wentz Homestead, Pennsylvania
• 67. Fort Mercer, New Jersey
• 68. Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania
• 69. Fort Randolph, West Virginia
• 70. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
• 71. Fort Roberdeau, Pennsylvania
• 72. Monmouth, New Jersey
• 73. Newport, Rhode Island
• 74. Beavertail Light and Conanicut Battery, Rhode Island
• 75. Fort Barton, Rhode Island
• 76. Butts Hill Fort, Rhode Island
• 77. Bedford-Fair Haven, Massachusetts
• 78. Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
• 79. Old Tappan, New Jersey
• 80. Lake Champlain, Vermont
• 81. Cherry Valley, New York
• 82. The Capture of the HMS Hinchinbrooke and Sloop Rebecca, Georgia
• 83. Fort Morris, Georgia
• 84. Savannah, Georgia
• 85. Kettle Creek, Georgia
• 86. Camp Reading Cantonment, Connecticut
• 87. Hopewell Village and Furnace, Pennsylvania
• 88. Cornwall Furnace, Pennsylvania
• 89. Jerusalem Mill, Maryland
• 90. Fort Frederick, Maryland
• 91. Fort Laurens, Ohio
• 92. Vincennes, Indiana
• 93. Verplanck's Point, New York
• 94. Stony Point, New York
• 95. New Town, New York
• 96. Penobscot Bay and River, Maine
• 97. Morristown, New Jersey
• 98. The Siege of Charleston, South Carolina
• 99. Powder Magazine, South Carolina
• 100. The Exchange, South Carolina
• 101. Waxhaws, South Carolina
• 102. Logan's Fort, Kentucky
• 103. Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky
• 104. Ruddell's Station, Kentucky
• 105. Martin's Station, Kentucky
• 106. Piqua, Ohio
• 107. Oneida Castle, NY
• 108. Canajoharie District, New York
• 109. Johnson Hall, New York
• 110. Stone Arabia, New York
• 111. Klock's Field, New York
• 112. Fort St. George, New York
• 113. Ramsour's Mill, North Carolina
• 114. Hanging Rock, South Carolina
• 115. Camden, South Carolina
• 116. Musgrove's Mill, South Carolina
• 117. DeWint House, New York
• 118. Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, South Carolina
• 119. Kings Mountain, South Carolina
• 120. Blackstock's Plantation, South Carolina
• 121. Cowpens, South Carolina
• 122. Cowan's Ford, North Carolina
• 123. Wilmington, North Carolina
• 124. Pyle's Defeat, North Carolina
• 125. Independence Hall and Yard, Pennsylvania
• 126. Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina
• 127. Fort Watson, South Carolina
• 128. Hobkirk Hill, South Carolina
• 129. Ninety Six, South Carolina
• 130. Eutaw Springs, South Carolina
• 131. Green Spring, Virginia
• 132. Joseph Webb House, Connecticut
• 133. The Burning of New London, Connecticut
• 134. Yorktown, Virginia
• 135. Camp Security, Pennsylvania
• 136. Sharon Springs, New York
• 137. Johnstown, New York
• 138. West Canada Creek, New York
• 139. Gnadenhutten, Ohio
• 140. Crawford's Defeat, Ohio
• 141. Bryan's Station, Kentucky
• 142. Blue Licks, Kentucky
• 143. Arkansas Post, Arkansas
• 144. New Windsor Cantonment, New York
• 145. John Ellison House, New York
• 146. Hasbrouck House, New York
• 147. Fraunces Tavern, New York.

The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook is a guide to the major sites of the Revolutionary War as well as to the most authoritative books on the war written during the last fifty years. Composed of nearly 150 entries on sites including battle fields and encampments; forts; museums; and meeting houses and gathering places such as Faneuil Hall in Boston and Keeler Tavern in Ridgefield, Connecticut, this guidebook is an essential reference for anyone interested in Revolutionary War history. Entries include essays from the most authoritative and accessible books on the American Revolution, including such classic works as Barbara Tuchman's The First Salute and David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing, as well as a number of illuminating primary documents by Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and others. The essays provide context and overview, giving a sense of the major figures and events as well as the course of the Revolution. Frances Kennedy, general editor, provides connecting narrative throughout the text, which moves chronologically from the pre-Revolutionary years up through 1787. The resulting book is encyclopedic in scope yet accessible to the general reader. Accompanied by historical maps, it offers a comprehensive picture of how the Revolutionary War unfolded on American soil, and also points readers to the best writing on the subject in the last fifty years.
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• Part I. A revolutionary experience
• A disproportionate burden on the willing / William L. Kidder
• "Most boundless avarice": illegal trade in revolutionary Essex / Gregory F. Walsh
• Blasting, scraping, and scavenging: iron and salt production in revolutionary New Jersey / Eleanor H. McConnell
• A nest of tories: the American versus American Battle of Fort Lee, 1781 / Todd W. Braisted
• Rochambeau in New Jersey: the good French ally / Robert A. Selig
• Part II. The impact of the revolutionary experience
• Destitute of almost everything to support life: the acquisition and loss of wealth in revolutionary Monmouth County, New Jersey / Michael S. Adelberg
• Discharging their duty: Salem Quakers and slavery, 1730-1780 / Bruce A. Bendler
• Slavery, abolition, and African Americans in New Jersey's American Revolution / James J. Gigantino II
• A loyalist homestead in a world turned upside down / Donald Sherblom.

Battles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the front lines and the home front. Unlike other colonies, New Jersey had significant economic power in part because of its location between the major ports of New York and Philadelphia. New people and new ideas arriving in the colony fostered tensions between Loyalists and Patriots that were at the core of the Revolution. Enlightenment thinking shaped the minds of New Jersey's settlers as they began to question the meaning of freedom in the colony. Yeoman farmers demanded ownership of the land they worked on and members of the growing Quaker denomination decried the evils of slavery and spearheaded the abolitionist movement in the state. When larger portions of New Jersey were occupied by British forces early in the war, the unity of the state was crippled, pitting neighbor against neighbor for seven years. The essays in this collection identify and explore the interconnections between the events on the battlefield and the daily lives of ordinary colonists during the Revolution. Using a wide historical lens, the contributors to The American Revolution in New Jersey capture the decades before and after the conflict as they interpret the causes of the war and the consequences of New Jersey's reaction to the Revolution.
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• Cover; Contents;
• Part 1. The Post-Revolutionary Period;
• Part 2. The Antebellum Period.

From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of literature and politics, Mark Patterson argues that this scene restates political issues in literary terms and embodies the essential problems of American democracy facing both politicians and writers: What is autonomy? How does representation work? Where does true authority lie? Beginning with the.

• "The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us" : ambition, coercion, and choice in joining the army
• "We were young men with warm hearts" : manhood in the Continental Army
• "Feared by many, loved by none" : relationships between soldiers and civilians
• "To quit the service of their country" : young men's decisions to leave the Continental Army
• "Yield the tribute due to merit" : young veterans after the war.

Young Continental soldiers carried a heavy burden in the American Revolution. Their experiences of coming of age during the upheavals of war provide a novel perspective on the Revolutionary era, eliciting questions of gender, family life, economic goals, and politics. "Going for a soldier" forced young men to confront profound uncertainty, and even coercion, but also offered them novel opportunities. Although the war imposed obligations on youths, military service promised young men in their teens and early twenties alternate paths forward in life. Continental soldiers' own youthful expectations about respectable manhood and their goals of an economic competence and marriage not only ordered their experience of military service; they also shaped the fighting capacities of George Washington's army and the course of the war. Becoming Men of Some Consequence examines how young soldiers and officers joined the army, their experiences in the ranks, their relationships with civilians, their choices about quitting long-term military service, and their attempts to rejoin the flow of civilian life after the war. The book recovers young soldiers' perspectives and stories from military records, wartime letters and journals, and postwar memoirs and pension applications, revealing how revolutionary political ideology intertwined with rational calculations and youthful ambitions. Its focus on soldiers as young men offers a new understanding of the Revolutionary War, showing how these soldiers' generational struggle for their own independence was a profound force within America's struggle for its independence.
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• The European invasion and the transformation of the Indians of Tennessee, 1540-1715 / Robbie Ethridge
• Cherokees, empire, and the Tennessee corridor in the British imagination, 1670-1730 / Kristofer Ray
• "It seems like coming into our houses": challenges to Cherokee hunting grounds, 1750-1775 / Tyler Boulware
• Shawnee geography and the Tennessee corridor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John P. Bowes
• Tennessee in the American Revolution: a reconsideration / Richard Gildrie
• Military families: kinship in the American Revolution / Natalie Inman
• The state of Franklin: separatism, competition, and the legacy of Tennessee's first state, 1783-1789 / Kevin Barksdale
• John Montgomery and the perils of American identity in the Mero District, 1780-1795 / David Britton
• Afterword: searching for John Sevier: myth, memory, and the history of early Tennessee history / Kevin Barksdale and Kristofer Ray.

• Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Dramatis Personae;
• Chapter 1 The 1777 Campaign Takes Shape;
• Chapter 2 Northern New Jersey: Preliminaries, January
• June 1777;
• Chapter 3 Northern New Jersey: To Ships, June
• July, 1777;
• Chapter 4 To Sea and the Delaware: July 1777;
• Chapter 5 To Sea and the Chesapeake: August 1-25, 1777;
• Chapter 6 To Pennsylvania & First Contact: August 25
• September 2, 1777;
• Chapter 7 To the Brandywine: September 3-10, 1777;
• Chapter 8 The Continental Army: September 10, 1777.

• Chapter 9 The British Army: September 10, 1777
• Chapter 10 The Eve of Battle: September 10, 1777;
• Chapter 11 The Battle Begins: Morning, September 11, 1777;
• Chapter 12 Mid-Day Lull: September 11, 1777;
• Chapter 13 The British Assault Birmingham Hill: Afternoon, September 11, 1777;
• Chapter 14 The British Assault Stirling and Stephen: Afternoon, September 11, 1777;
• Chapter 15 Knyphausen Assaults Chads's Ford: Evening, September 11, 1777;
• Chapter 16 Nathanael Greene Makes a Stand: Evening, September 11, 1777;
• Chapter 17 The Aftermath of Battle: September 12-16, 1777; Epilogue.

• Appendix A: The Battle of the Brandywine Order of BattleAppendix B: Was the Earliest American Flag Carried into Battle at Cooch's Bridge and/or the Brandywine?; Appendix C: Where did Lafayette Sleep?; Appendix D: Thomas Burke's Attack Against John Sullivan's Battlefield Performance, and Sullivan's Defense; Appendix E: The Ferguson Rifles after the Battle of the Brandywine; Appendix F: The Main Characters, Thereafter; Appendix G: A History of the Battlefield: Commemoration and Preservation; Appendix H: The Use of Cavalry and Artillery at Brandywine; Bibliography.

Brandywine Creek calmly meanders through the Pennsylvania countryside today, but on September 11, 1777, it served as the scenic backdrop for the largest battle of the American Revolution, one that encompassed more troops over more land than any combat fought on American soil until the Civil War. Long overshadowed by the stunning American victory at Saratoga, the complex British campaign that defeated George Washington's colonial army and led to the capture of the capital city of Philadelphia was one of the most important military events of the war. Michael C. Harris's impressive Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777, is the first full-length study of this pivotal engagement in many years. General Sir William Howe launched his campaign in late July 1777, when he loaded his army of 16,500 British and Hessian soldiers aboard a 265-ship armada in New York and set sail. Six difficult weeks later Howe's expedition landed near Elkton, Maryland, and moved north into Pennsylvania. Washington's rebel army harassed Howe's men at several locations including a minor but violent skirmish at Cooch's Bridge in Delaware on September 3. Another week of hit-and-run tactics followed until Howe was within three miles of Chads's Ford on Brandywine Creek, behind which Washington had posted his army in strategic blocking positions along a six-mile front. The young colonial capital of Philadelphia was just 25 miles farther east. Harris's Brandywine is the first complete study to merge the strategic, political, and tactical history of this complex operation and important set-piece battle into a single compelling account. More than a decade in the making, his sweeping prose relies almost exclusively upon original archival research and his personal knowledge of the terrain. Enhanced with original maps, illustrations, and modern photos, and told largely through the words of those who fought there, Brandywine will take its place as one of the most important military studies of the American Revolution ever written.
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• Prologue: A Community at War1. "A Colony of Aliens": Diversity, Politics, and War in Prerevolutionary Lancaster2. "Divided We Must Inevitably Fall": War Comes to Lancaster3. "A Dangerous Set of People": British Captives and the Sundering of Empire4. " 'Tis Britain Alone That Is Our Enemy": German Captives and the Promise of America5. "Enemies of Our Peace": Captives, the Disaffected, and the Refinement of American Patriotism6. "The Country Is Full of Prisoners of War": Nationalism, Resistance, and AssimilationEpilogue: The Empty BarracksNotes Index.
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In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners-both British regulars and their so-called Hessian auxiliaries-in makeshift detention camps far from the fighting. As the Americans' principal site for incarcerating enemy prisoners of war, Lancaster stood at the nexus of two vastly different revolutionary worlds: one national, the other intensely local. Captives came under the control of local officials loosely supervised by state and national authorities. Concentrating the prisoners in the heart of their communities brought the revolutionaries' enemies to their doorstep, with residents now facing a daily war at home. Many prisoners openly defied their hosts, fleeing, plotting, and rebelling, often with the clandestine support of local loyalists. By early 1779, General George Washington, furious over the captives' ongoing attempts to subvert the American war effort, branded them "dangerous guests in the bowels of our Country." The challenge of creating an autonomous national identity in the newly emerging United States was nowhere more evident than in Lancaster, where the establishment of a detention camp served as a flashpoint for new conflict in a community already unsettled by stark ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. Many Lancaster residents soon sympathized with the Hessians detained in their town while the loyalist population considered the British detainees to be the true patriots of the war. Miller demonstrates that in Lancaster, the notably local character of the war reinforced not only preoccupations with internal security but also novel commitments to cause and country.
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• Coverpage; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Introduction; CHAPTER l The "Fronter";
• CHAPTER 2 Controversy: The New Hampshire Grants;
• CHAPTER 3 Ethan Allen and the Assault on Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775;
• CHAPTER 4 The Capture of Ethan Allen at Montreal, September 25, 1775;
• CHAPTER 5 Carleton's Campaign of 1775-1776;
• CHAPTER 6 The British Incursion into Vermont, 1777;
• CHAPTER 7 The Republic of Vermont;
• CHAPTER 8 Defending the Republic: New York, New Hampshire and the Continental Congress;
• CHAPTER 9 Defending the Republic: The British Raids from Canada.

• CHAPTER 10 The Haldimand Negotiations, Phase
• 1: July 1780 to December 1781
• CHAPTER 11 The Haldimand Negotiations, Phase
• 2: January 1782 to April 1783;
• CHAPTER 12 The Political Philosophy of Ethan Allen;
• CHAPTER 13 Ethan Allen: Endgame and Assessment; Appendix: Seth Warner's Letter to General Montgomery; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

This work takes us beneath the veneer of the famous "Green Mountain Boys" to reveal the true story of how a hardened, quasi-commando army happened to be present in America's northern colonies at the start of the Revolution. Under their first dynamic commander, Ethan Allen, the Green Mountain Boys indeed formed and fought against a larger, oppressive power-this was the Colony of New York, which repeatedly tried to make claim to Vermont land. Meantime Vermont itself was termed the"Hampshire Grants, " and was considered to be a part of that similarly nebulous New England territory. The Vermonters would have little of it, however, even as British Canada also extended its covetous eye, and under Ethan Allen formed their own militia to combat encroachers from either side. Allen was not an innocent in the mix, and had his own agenda, including financial or landowning ones. But the spirit he and his men showed in defense of their isolated mountains has come to epitomize America's own spirit of independence against any untoward or unwanted regime. When the Revolution against Britain arrived, the Green Mountain Boys were one of the few organized, experienced combat units Washington could call on from the northeast. And they were immediately put to good use, seizing the British fortress at Ticonderoga and afterward helping to invade Canada. But in mid-1777 was declared the"Republic of Vermont, " sending a signal to all comers that those rustic fighters didn't wish to be governed by anyone except themselves. Nevertheless, at the Battle of Hubbardton, and then Bennington, the Green Mountain Boys performed good service on behalf of the United Colonies. Eventually the Vermonters would be persuaded to join the new nation itself, even if, as this fascinating book proves, they never considered that path such an easy one.
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• Time line, 1735-1826
• Personal foundations
• Revolution in the mind and in the street
• Revolutionary paths cross
• Defining moment
• Forming a confederation
• Expanding horizons
• Together in Paris
• To London to Lond to see the bad King
• Creating a new federal government
• In double harness
• Diverging paths
• Two scorpions in a bottle
• Republican battle
• Tom on top
• Reconciliation and death.

• The officer corps of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment
• Field officers
• Captains and captain lieutenants
• Lieutenants
• Ensigns and volunteers
• Staff officers
• Absentee officers
• Other officers associated with the Royal Irish in America.

Protecting the Empire's Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776. The Royal Irish was one of the most wide-ranging regiments in America, with companies serving on the Illinois frontier, at Fort Pitt, and in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, with some companies taken as far afield as Florida, Spanish Louisiana, and present-day Maine. When the regiment was returned to England in 1776, some of the officers remained in America on staff as.

• Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I: The World of Charles Lee, 1731-1764
• 1. Colonel Lee's Son
• 2. Early Encounters and Life Lessons on the American Frontier
• 3. An Ambitious OfficerPart II: The Last Asylum of Liberty, 1765-1775
• 4. Absolute Power Is a Serpent
• 5. The Brutality of Love and War
• 6. The Greatest Son of Liberty in America
• 7. The Dogs of WarPart III: Unfortunate Son of Liberty, 1776-1778
• 8. The Key to the Continent: New York
• 9. Angels of Indecision: Virginia
• 10. Lee's Southern Glory
• 11. Lee's Northern Disillusionment
• 12. The Idol of the Officers
• 13. The King's Famous PrisonerPart IV: The End of a Soldier's Life, 1778-1782
• 14. Monmouth
• 15. Washington's Scapegoat?
• 16. The Bitter EndNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author.
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Honorable Mention for the 2015 Book Award from the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond Honorable Mention for the 2015 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award In November 1774, a pamphlet to the "People of America" was published in Philadelphia and London. It forcefully articulated American rights and liberties and argued that the Americans needed to declare their independence from Britain. The author of this pamphlet was Charles Lee, a former British army officer turned revolutionary, who was one of the earliest advocates for American independence. Lee fought on and off the battlefield for expanded democracy, freedom of conscience, individual liberties, human rights, and for the formal education of women. Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee is a vivid new portrait of one of the most complex and controversial of the American revolutionaries. Lee's erratic behavior and comportment, his capture and more than one year imprisonment by the British, and his court martial after the battle of Monmouth in 1778 have dominated his place in the historiography of the American Revolution. This book retells the story of a man who had been dismissed by contemporaries and by history. Few American revolutionaries shared his radical political outlook, his cross-cultural experiences, his cosmopolitanism, and his confidence that the American Revolution could be won primarily by the militia (or irregulars) rather than a centralized regular army. By studying Lee's life, his political and military ideas, and his style of leadership, we gain new insights into the way the American revolutionaries fought and won their independence from Britain.
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• ""DEFINING DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The American Revolution (1754-1805) (Volume 1)""; ""Contents""; ""Complete List of Contents""; ""Publisherâ€?s Note""; ""Introduction""; ""Contributors""; ""Founding Documents""; ""Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress""; ""The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress""; ""The Rights of the Colonists""; ""A Summary View of the Rights of British America""; ""Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death""; ""Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms""; ""Common Sense""; ""Declaration of Independence""; ""Articles of Confederation""

• ""Constitution of New York""""Constitution of Massachusetts""; ""A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America""; ""Constitution of the United States""; ""George Washingtonâ€?s First Inaugural Address""; ""The Bill of Rights""; ""Thomas Jeffersonâ€?s First Inaugural Address""; ""Speeches and Political Tracts""; ""On the Right to Tax America""; ""Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One""; ""Paul Revereâ€?s Engraving of the Boston Massacre""; ""John Hancockâ€?s Boston Massacre Oration""

• ""An Address to the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs""""Proclamation on Behalf of King George III""; ""The Farmer Refuted""; ""Speech on Conciliation with America""; ""Federalist No. 10""; ""Speech Delivered at the Virginia Convention Debate on the Ratification of the Constitution""; ""Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the Sedition Act""; ""The Dangers of American Liberty""; ""History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution""; ""Supplemental Historical Documents""; ""On American Independence""; ""Brutus No. 1""

• ""Report on the Subject of Manufactures""""The Revolution in Letters""; ""Letters of Abigail Adams to John Adams""; ""Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies""; ""Account of Shaysâ€?s Rebellion""; ""Letter on the Rebellion in Springfield""; ""Letters on Independence""; ""Letter from George Washington to Martha Washington, June 18, 1775""; ""Letter to the Committee of Merchants in London""; ""Letter on the Virginia Constitution""; ""Letters from an American Farmer""; ""From the Commissioners for Negotiating a Peace with Great Britain""

• ""Letters of a Countryman""""New York Legislature Committee of Correspondence to George Washington""; ""Supplemental Historical Documents""; ""Peter Brownâ€?s Letter to His Mother, Following the Battle of Bunker Hill""; ""Letter from Oliver Wolcott to Roger Newberry""; ""Letters Concerning the Revolution""; ""George Washingtonâ€?s Letter to Bushrod Washington""; ""The Boisterous Sea of Liberty""; ""DEFINING DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The American Revolution (1754-1805) (Volume 2)""; ""Contents""; ""Complete List of Contents""; ""Political Sermons""; ""The Curse of Cowardice""

• * List of Maps * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction * The Only Link Wanting: The First Continental Congress Invites Canada * New Subjects to the King: Canadians and the Province of Quebec * Fuel for Rebellion: The British Party and the Quebec Act of 1774 * Authors and Agitators: Patriot Correspondence and John Brown's Mission * Preemptive Strikes: Ticonderoga and Fort St-Jean * That Damned Absurd Word "Liberty": Quebec's Own Rebellion * To Erect the Glorious Standard of American Liberty in Canada: The Decision to Intervene * The Canadians Opened the Road: Continentals and Partisans on the Richelieu River * The Treachery and Villainy of the Canadians: Collaboration, Resistance, and Siege in the Montreal District * Another Path to the Heart of Quebec: Canada's Capital, Hannibal's Heir, and the Kennebec Expedition * To Winter in Canada: "Free" Montreal and Fortress Quebec * Time to Consider Politics: The Continental Congress, the Northern Army, and a Committee for Canada * Contest of Wills at Quebec: The Fortress Capital-Key to Victory? * The Question of Loyalists: General Wooster and "Liberated" Montreal, 1775 * A Critical Month: Wooster's Montreal, January 1776 * Evolving Occupation: Montreal and the Struggle for the Canadian Spirit * A Spirit of Cooperation and Understanding: William Goforth, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, and Trois-Rivieres * Patriot Zealots: Benedict Arnold, Canadian Patriots, and the Quebec City Blockade * Spring of Unrest: A Canadian Battle in the Quebec District * A Late-Changing Cast: New Continental Leadership for Canada * May Tides: New Arrivals and Massive Change for the Province * The Sad Necessity of Abandoning Canada: Military Collapse and the End of the Canadian Continental Experience * The Causes of the Miscarriages in Canada: Carleton and Congress Investigate the Failures * Conclusion: Misinterpretations and Missteps in a War to Spread Democracy *
• Appendix 1. Canadian Voices: A Note on Sources *
• Appendix 2. The Polarized Legacy of General David Wooster * Source Abbreviations * Name Abbreviations * Notes * Select Bibliography * Index.
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In this dramatic retelling of one of history's great "what-ifs, " Mark R. Anderson examines the American colonies' campaign to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free the Canadians from British "tyranny." This significant reassessment of a little-studied campaign examines developments on both sides of the border that rapidly proceeded from peaceful diplomatic overtures to a sizable armed intervention. The military narrative encompasses Richard Montgomery's plodding initial operations, Canadian partisan cooperation with officers like Ethan Allen, and the harrowing experiences of Benedict Arnold's Kennebec expedition, as well as the sudden collapse of British defenses that secured the bulk of the province for the rebel cause. The book provides new insight into both Montgomery's tragic Quebec City defeat and a small but highly significant loyalist uprising in the rural northern parishes that was suppressed by Arnold and his Canadian patriot allies. Anderson closely examines the evolving relationships between occupiers and occupied, showing how rapidly changing circumstances variously fostered cooperation and encouraged resistance among different Canadian elements. The book homes in on the key political and military factors that ultimately doomed America's first foreign war of liberation and resulted in the Continental Army's decisive expulsion from Canada on the eve of the Declaration of Independence. The first full treatment of this fascinating chapter in Revolutionary War history in over a century, Anderson's account is especially revealing in its presentation of contentious British rule in Quebec, and of Continental beliefs that Canadiens would greet the soldiers as liberators and allies in a common fight against the British yoke. This thoroughly researched and action-packed history will appeal to American and Canadian history buffs and military experts alike.
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• The King of America
• The not so United States
• Not as happy in peace as they had been glorious in war
• The shadow government
• The phoenix
• Wield the sword
• The Washington paradigm
• Cruel and usual punishment
• The currents of war
• Best circumspection
• The realities of war
• Necessary evil
• Fully justifiable
• What it takes to defend the nation
• Dictator of America
• Scorpion on a leash
• Between a hawk and a buzzard
• Onslaught
• The times that try men's souls
• Reevaluation
• Victory or death
• Idolatry
• Dictator perpetuo
• Tribunals & tribulations
• Prosecution of military duty
• A traitor lurks
• Treason of the blackest dye
• Courts-martial & commissions
• American military justice
• His excellency's loyal subjects: wartime rights of americans
• Total ruin
• Band of brethren
• Poison & peas
• America's defender
• License to plunder
• Not-so-civil civil war
• Could have been king
• Consummate prudence
• Winning the peace
• Spectacles and speculation
• Greatest man in the world.

Blood of Tyrants reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers' approach to government and this history's impact on today. Delving into the forgotten--and often lurid--facts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nation's first commander in chief, George Washington, as he shaped the very meaning of the United States Constitution in the heat of battle. Key episodes illustrate how the Founders dealt with thorny wartime issues: Who decides war strategy? When should we use military tribunals over civilian trials? Should we inflict harsh treatment on enemy captives if it means saving American lives? How do we protect citizens' rights when the nation is struggling to defend itself? Beirne finds evidence in previously-unexplored documents such as General Washington's letters debating torture, an eyewitness account of the military tribunal that executed a British prisoner, Founders' letters warning against government debt, and communications pointing to a power struggle between Washington and the Continental Congress. Vivid stories from the Revolution frame Washington's pivotal role in the drafting of the Constitution. The Founders saw the first American commander in chief as the template for all future presidents: a leader who would fiercely defend Americans' rights and liberties against all forms of aggression. Blood of Tyrants pulls the reader directly into the scenes, filling the void in our understanding of the presidency and our ingenious Founders' pragmatic approach to issues we still face today.
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• The fateful choice
• Lee's "American expedition"
• Lee's European experience
• Personality and political philosophy
• A "love affair" with America
• Foreign officers in service to America
• America's soldier
• Rejoining Washington
• Captivity, betrayal, exchange
• Monmouth
• Court-martial
• Bitterness, despair and death
• Epilogue: A man without a country.

Dominick Mazzagetti presents an engaging account of the life of Charles Lee, the forgotten man of the American Revolution. History has not been kind to Lee-for good reason. In this compelling biography, Mazzagetti compares Lee's life and attributes to those of George Washington and offers significant observations omitted from previous Lee biographies, including extensive correspondence with British officers in 1777 that reflects Lee's abandonment of the Patriots' cause. Lee, a British officer, a veteran of the French and Indian War, and a critic of King George III, arrived in New York City in 1773 with an ego that knew no bounds and tolerated no rivals. A highly visible and newsworthy personality, he quickly took up the American cause and encouraged rebellion. As a result of this advocacy and his military skills, Lee was granted a commission as a major general in the Continental Army and soon became second-in-command to George Washington. He helped organize the defense of Boston, designed defenses for New York City, and commanded the force that repelled the British attack on Charleston. Upon his return to New York in 1776, Lee was considered by some leaders of the Revolution to be an alternative to George Washington, who was in full retreat from British forces. Lee's capture by the British in December 1776 put an end to that possibility. Lee's subsequent release in a prisoner exchange in 1778 and return to an American command led to a dramatic confrontation with Washington on the battlefield at Monmouth, New Jersey, in June 1778. Washington chastised Lee publicly for ordering an unnecessary retreat. Lee suffered the ignominy of a court-martial conviction for this blunder and spent the remaining years to his death in 1782 attacking Washington. Although few doubted Lee's loyalty at the time, his actions at Monmouth fueled speculation that he switched sides during his imprisonment. A discovery years after his death completed Lee's tale. In 1862, a researcher discovered "Mr. Lee's Plan, " a detailed strategy for the defeat of the American rebels delivered to British General William Howe while Lee was held in captivity. This discovery sealed Lee's historical record and ended all further discussion of his contributions to the American Revolution. Today, few people even realize that Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge, was named in his honor.
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• Hemispheric history and atlantic history
• Reformulating Englishness : cultural adaptation and provinciality in the construction of corporate identity in colonial British America
• State formation, resistance, and the creation of revolutionary traditions in the early modern era
• Colonial history and national history : reflections on a continuing problem
• Transatlantic colonization and the redefinition of empire in the early modern era : the British-American experience
• Traditions of consensual governance in the construction of state authority in the early modern European empires in America
• Britain's overseas empire before 1780 : overwhelmingly successful and bureaucratically challenged
• "Of liberty and of the colonies" : a case study of constitutional conflict in the mid-eighteenth-century British American empire
• : the perils of success
• An empire of freemen? : the British debate over the status of overseas representative assemblies, 1763-1783
• Empire and identity from the Elizabethan era to the American Revolution
• "By their laws shall ye know them" : law and identity in colonial British America
• Liberty, slavery, and the transformation of British identity in the eighteenth-century West Indies
• Alterity and the production of identity in the early modern British American empire and the early United States
• State identities and national identity in the era of the American Revolution
• Social and cultural capital in colonization and state building in the early modern era : colonial British America as a case study
• Pluribus or unum? : white ethnicity in the formation of colonial American culture
• The cultural dimensions of political transfers : an aspect of the European occupation of the Americas
• Early modern southeastern North America and the broader Atlantic and American worlds.

Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created during the colonisation process. He shows how transplanted Old World components-political, legal, and social-were adapted to meet the demands of new, economically viable, expansive cultural hearths. Greene argues that these transplantations and adaptations were of fundamental importance in the formation and evolution of the new American republic and the society it represented. The scope of this work allows Greene to consider in depth numerous subjects, including the dynamics of colonisation, the development and character of provincial identities, the relationship between new settler societies in America and the emerging British Empire, and the role of cultural power in social and political formation.
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• Overview: the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth and James M. Johnson
• Politics and loyalties
• A suspected loyalist in the rural Hudson River Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge / Kenneth Shefsiek
• "Can you on such principles think of quitting a country?" Family, faith, law, property, and the loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution / Michael Diaz
• New York's committees in the American Revolution / Colin Williams
• Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: the reluctant revolutionary / Clare Brandt
• Skinners: patriot "friends" or loyalist "foes"? / Lincoln Diamant
• The central Hudson Valley and the American Revolution / Thomas S. Wermuth
• Suffrage and society
• Open to all parties: Alexander and James Robertson, Albany printers, 1771-1777 / Denis P. Brennan
• Taxation and suffrage in revolutionary New York / Jonathan Clark
• The right to choose: suffrage during the Revolutionary Era in Charlotte Precinct / William P. McDermott
• "The women! in this place have risen in a mob": Women rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth
• Officers and a lady: the Hudson Highlands and Georgia during the Revolution / Edward J. Cashin
• Fortresses, prisons, and huts
• Lewis Graham's house in Pine Plains: a Revolutionary log building / Neil Larson
• Revolutionary War fleet prison at Esopus / Frank Doherty
• The flawed works of Fort Constitution / James M. Johnson
• Battles and warfare
• A warm reception in the Hudson Highlands / James M. Johnson
• War in Schaghticoke: a footnote to the revolution in upstate New York / R. Beth Klopott
• Interpreting the battle for the Hudson River Valley: the Battle of Fort Montgomery
• James M. Johnson and Gregory Smith
• Revolutionary road: incident on Gallows Hill / Thomas C. O'Keefe
• Soldier of '76: the Revolutionary War service of a Connecticut private in the campaign for Yew york / William Sullivan
• Valcour Island: setting the conditions for victory at Saratoga / Gregory Tomlin.