CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Key fortifications from the American Revolutionary War

CHRONOLOGY

THE NORTHEAST

Boston

Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill

Ticonderoga’s guns

The fortifications of New York and Manhattan, 1776–83

The Mohawk Valley and Saratoga

Philadelphia

CANADA

Saint-Jean

Quebec

Nova Scotia

Hudson’s Bay

THE SOUTH

The first siege of Charleston, 1776

Savannah

The second siege of Charleston, 1780

Ninety Six

West Florida

Yorktown

THE MIDWEST

Vincennes

THE SITES TODAY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY