Chapter 1: Knowledge of the Military Art, 1754
1. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), xix.
2. Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life (New York: Random House, 2005), 39.
4. Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (New York: A.A. Knopf, 2000), 59.
6. Thomas E. Crocker, Braddock’s March: How the Man Sent to Seize a Continent Changed American History (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2009), 242.
7. Lengel, General George Washington, 51.
8. Crocker, Braddock’s March, 100.
10. Don Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 5.
11. Crocker, Braddock’s March, 90.
13. Arthur Quinn, A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994), 458.
14. Anderson, Crucible of War, 95.
15. Crocker, Braddock’s March, 129.
17. Winthrop Sargent, ed., The History of an Expedition Against Fort du Quesne, in 1755 (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1856), 201.
18. Crocker, Braddock’s March, 226.
21. Crocker, Braddock’s March, 232.
22. Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 125.
23. Lengel, General George Washington, 62.
Chapter 2: Blows Must Decide, 1774
1. Russell Bourne, Cradle of Violence: How Boston’s Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolution (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006), 90–91.
2. Richard Archer, As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 25.
3. Bourne, Cradle of Violence, 116.
5. Harlow G. Unger, Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010), 61.
6. Gerald M. Carbone, Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 10.
8. North Callahan, Henry Knox, General Washington’s Genera (New York: Rinehart, 1958), 25.
9. Carbone, Nathanael Greene, 16–17.
10. Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 111.
11. John W. Shy, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990), 104, 115.
12. Arthur Bernon Tourtellot, Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (New York: Norton, 1963), 133.
13. Theodore Draper, A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution (New York: Times Books, 1996), 502.
Chapter 3: The Predicament We Are In, 1775
1. Arthur Bernon Tourtellot, Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (New York: Norton, 1963), 234.
2. Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York: Morrow, 1990), 83.
3. Willard Sterne Randall, Ethan Allen: His Life and Times (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011), 290.
6. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 86.
7. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 56.
8. James L. Nelson, With Fire & Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011), 282.
9. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 201.
10. Bruce Chadwick, The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America’s First Fight for Freedom (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2005), 29.
11. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 77.
12. John Richard Alden, General Charles Lee, Traitor or Patriot? (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,1951), 8.
13. Barnet Schecter, The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution (New York: Walker, 2002), 69.
14. David G. McCullough, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 64.
15. Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 648.
Chapter 4: Learning to Be Soldiers, 1775
1. Michael A. Bellesiles, ed., Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 94.
2. Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 34.
3. Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 169.
4. Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York: Morrow, 1990), 155.
5. North Callahan, Daniel Morgan, Ranger of the Revolution (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961), 65.
6. Randall, Benedict Arnold, 167.
7. Justin Harvey Smith, Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony: Canada, and the American Revolution (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907), 568.
8. Randall, Benedict Arnold, 171.
9. Thomas A. Desjardin, Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006), 62.
10. Isaac Senter, The Journal of Isaac Senter (New York: New York Times Books, 1969), 27.
11. Randall, Benedict Arnold, 182.
12. Kenneth Lewis Roberts, March to Quebec: Journals of the Members of Arnold’s Expedition (New York: Doubleday 1938), 320.
13. Hal T. Shelton, General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel (New York: New York University Press, 1994), 67, 78.
14. Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind, 168.
15. Randall, Benedict Arnold, 208.
16. Desjardin, Through a Howling Wilderness, 166.
17. Michael P. Gabriel, Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002), 134.
18. Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 615.
19. George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, Rebels and Redcoats (Cleveland: World Pub., 1957), 125–26.
20. Roberts, March to Quebec, 538.
21. Callahan, Daniel Morgan, 109.
22. Shelton, General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution, 158.
Chapter 5: Precious Convoy, 1776
1. Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 35.
4. David G. McCullough, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 83.
7. John P. Becker, The Sexagenary: Or, Reminiscences of the American Revolution (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1866), 34.
11. Richard Wheeler, Voices of 1776 (New York, Crowell, 1972), 101–102.
12. Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 650.
13. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 226.
16. Henry Steele Commager, ed., The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 180.
17. George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, Rebels and Redcoats (Cleveland: World Pub., 1957), 107.
18. Wheeler, Voices of 1776, 103.
19. Richard M. Ketchum, Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1999), 219.
20. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 132.
22. Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life (New York: Random House, 2005), 133.
Chapter 6: Sudden and Violent, 1776
1. David G. McCullough, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 118.
2. Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life (New York: Random House, 2005), 129.
3. David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 148.
4. Dominick A. Mazzagetti, Charles Lee: Self Before Country (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013), 108.
5. Paul David Nelson, William Alexander, Lord Stirling (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987), 2.
6. Barnet Schecter, The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution (New York: Walker, 2002), 84.
7. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 82.
8. Richard M. Ketchum, Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1999) 70.
10. Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 78.
11. Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 52.
14. Schecter, The Battle for New York, 106.
16. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 46.
17. William Patterson Cumming, The Fate of a Nation: The American Revolution through Contemporary Eyes (London: Phaidon, 1975), 102.
19. George Athan Billias, ed., George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 141–42.
21. Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 142.
22. Schecter, The Battle for New York, 131.
23. Nelson, William Alexander, 85.
24. Schecter, The Battle for New York, 146.
25. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 97.
26. George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, eds., Rebels and Redcoats (Cleveland: World Pub., 1957), 167.
27. Schecter, The Battle for New York, 150.
28. Nelson, William Alexander, 88.
29. Gerald M. Carbone, Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 37.
31. Cumming, The Fate of a Nation, 106.
33. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 248.
Chapter 7: Valcour Island, 1776
1. Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 176.
3. George Athan Billias, ed., George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 171.
4. Frederic Franklyn Van de Water, Lake Champlain and Lake George (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1946), 180.
5. Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York: Morrow, 1990), 260.
8. Eliot A. Cohen, Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War (New York: Free Press, 2011), 185.
9. Richard Wheeler, Voices of 1776 (New York: Crowell, 1972), 150.
10. James L. Nelson, Benedict Arnold’s Navy: The Ragtag Fleet that Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution (Camden, ME: International Marine, 2006), 318.
11. Thomas J. Fleming, 1776, Year of Illusions (New York: Norton, 1975), 397.
12. Randall, Benedict Arnold, 317.
Chapter 8: An Indecisive Mind, 1776
1. Henry Steele Commager, ed., The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 460.
2. David G. McCullough, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 207.
3. Barnet Schecter, The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution (New York: Walker, 2002), 183.
6. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 254.
7. David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 95.
9. Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 62.
10. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 142.
12. Charles Bracelen Flood, Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times along the Road to Independence (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976), 102.
16. Schecter, The Battle for New York, 255.
17. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 114.
18. Schecter, The Battle for New York, 256.
22. John W. Shy, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990), 150.
25. Schecter, The Battle for New York, 265.
26. Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 106.
27. Commager, The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six, 5.
Chapter 9: He That Stands by It Now, 1776
1. David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 159.
2. Samuel Stelle Smith, The Battle of Trenton (Monmouth Beach, NJ: Philip Freneau Press,1965), 15.
3. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 270.
4. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 143.
7. Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 74.
8. Henry Steele Commager, ed., The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 513.
9. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 220.
11. Commager, The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six, 513.
12. North Callahan, Henry Knox, General Washington’s General (New York: Rinehart, 1958), 91.
14. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 309.
15. Richard Wheeler, Voices of 1776 (New York, Crowell, 1972), 181.
17. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 332.
Chapter 10: A Continual Clap of Thunder, 1777
1. Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 253.
2. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 223.
3. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 124.
4. David Wilson, The Life of Jane McCrea, with an Account of Burgoyne’s Expedition in 1777 (New York: Baker, Goodwin, 1853), 79.
5. Henry Steele Commager, ed., The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 560.
6. Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War (New York: H. Holt, 1997), 276.
7. Matthew H. Spring, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), 18.
8. Ben Z. Rose, John Stark: Maverick General (Waverley, MA: TreeLine Press, 2007), 18.
10. Gerald Howson, Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography (New York: Times Books, 1978), 162.
16. Michael P. Gabriel, The Battle of Bennington: Soldiers & Civilians (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2012), 73.
17. Spring, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only, 332.
20. Commager, The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six, 573.
21. Gabriel, The Battle of Bennington, 102.
Chapter 11: Fight as Well as Brag, 1777
1. Paul David Nelson, Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 7.
2. George Athan Billias, ed., George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 287.
4. Nelson, Anthony Wayne, 2–3.
5. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 249.
7. Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 142.
8. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 360.
9. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 251.
11. Nelson, Anthony Wayne, 59.
13. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 310.
14. Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 970.
Chapter 12: Something More at Stake, 1777
1. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 154.
2. Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York: Morrow, 1990), 351.
3. Paul David Nelson, General Horatio Gates: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 108.
4. Don Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 61.
5. Max M. Mintz, The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne & Horatio Gates (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 18.
6. Randall, Benedict Arnold, 350.
7. Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War (New York: H. Holt, 1997), 348.
9. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 510.
10. Christopher Duffy, The Military Experience in the Age of Reason (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), 163.
12. Christopher Hibbert, Redcoats & Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes (New York: Norton, 1990), 185.
13. Ward, The War of the Revolution, 511.
16. Randall, Benedict Arnold, 359.
17. Nelson, General Horatio Gates, 134.
19. Randall, Benedict Arnold, 362.
21. Nelson, General Horatio Gates, 132.
24. Henry Steele Commager, ed., The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 593.
28. Mintz, The Generals of Saratoga, 194.
29. Harlow G. Unger, Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010), 132.
30. Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan, 76.
Chapter 13: The Discipline of the Leggs, 1778
1. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 543.
2. Wayne K. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), 128.
3. Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life (New York: Random House, 2005), 267.
4. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter, 112–13.
5. Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 289.
6. Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 162.
11. David A. Clary, Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution (New York: Bantam Books, 2007), 117.
12. Paul David Nelson, Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 66.
13. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 283.
14. Paul Douglas Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the American Army (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2008), 42.
15. Bruce Chadwick, The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America’s First Fight for Freedom (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2005), 29.
16. Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, 133.
20. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter, 201.
21. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 293.
22. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 336.
24. Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, 132.
25. Harlow G. Unger, Lafayette (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002), 77.
26. Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, 162.
27. Lengel, General George Washington, 300.
28. Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, 125.
29. Joseph Plumb Martin, Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006), 72.
30. Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 130.
31. Nelson, Anthony Wayne, 82.
32. Ward, The War of the Revolution, 549.
Chapter 14: The Boldest Conduct, 1779
1. William R. Nester, George Rogers Clark: “I Glory in War” (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), 75.
2. August William Derleth, Vincennes: Portal to the West (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968), 56.
3. Nester, George Rogers Clark, 120.
7. Nester, George Rogers Clark, 3.
9. Barbara Graymont, The Iroquois in the American Revolution (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1972), 190.
10. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 353.
12. Charles Park Whittemore, A General of the Revolution, John Sullivan of New Hampshire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), 110.
17. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 357.
18. Glenn Tucker, Mad Anthony Wayne and the New Nation: The Story of Washington’s Front-Line General (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1973), 162.
19. Graymont, The Iroquois in the American Revolution, 213.
21. Whittemore, A General of the Revolution,147.
22. Joseph R. Fischer, A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign Against the Iroquois, July-September 1779 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997), 192.
23. Whittemore, A General of the Revolution,148.
24. Bruce Chadwick, George Washington’s War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2005), 328.
Chapter 15: Fate of Battle, 1780
1. George Athan Billias, ed., George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 196, 200, 206.
3. David B. Mattern, Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 13.
4. Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 198.
5. Mattern, Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution, 95.
6. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 426.
7. Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 203.
8. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 427.
10. John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas (New York: Wiley, 1997), 85.
11. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 717.
12. George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, eds., Rebels and Redcoats (Cleveland: World Pub., 1957), 404.
13. Charles Bracelen Flood, Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times along the Road to Independence (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976), 288.
16. Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 102.
17. Ward, The War of the Revolution, 728.
18. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 441.
19. Dan L. Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1993), 93.
20. Flood, Rise, and Fight Again, 328.
23. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 375.
24. Paul David Nelson, General Horatio Gates: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 253.
26. Flood, Rise, and Fight Again, 345.
27. Chernow, Washington, 352–53.
29. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 444–45.
33. David A. Clary, Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution (New York: Bantam Books, 2007), 280.
34. Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York: Morrow, 1990), 457.
37. Carl Van Doren, Mutiny in January: The Story of a Crisis in the Continental Army Now for the First Time Fully Told from Many Hitherto Unknown or Neglected Sources, Both American and British (New York: Viking Press, 1943), 13.
39. Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 1603.
41. Van Doren, Mutiny in January, 216.
42. Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 159.
43. Howard H. Peckham, The War for Independence: A Military History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 158.
Chapter 16: Downright Fighting, 1780
1. Henry Lee, Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States (New York: University Publishing, 1870), 233.
2. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 458.
3. Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 461.
4. Dan L. Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1993), 105.
5. Hank Messick, King’s Mountain: The Epic of the Blue Ridge “Mountain Men” in the American Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 112.
6. Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 1427.
7. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 462.
8. Messick, King’s Mountain, 134.
11. Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, 110.
12. Messick, King’s Mountain, 167.
13. Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, 111.
14. Messick, King’s Mountain, 167.
15. Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 376.
16. Don Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 120.
17. Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, 124.
18. Richard M. Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution (New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 112–13.
19. Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan,132.
20. Lawrence Edward Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 55.
25. Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan,137.
26. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping, 102.
29. Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan,141.
31. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping, 10.
32. Higginbotham, Daniel Morgan,143.
Chapter 17: War Is an Intricate Business, 1781
1. Terry Golway, Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 2005), 127.
4. Nathanael Greene, The Papers of General Nathanael Greene (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976), 3:62.
5. Golway, Washington’s General, 232, 239.
6. Henry Lee, Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States (New York: University Publishing, 1870), 39.
7. Golway, Washington’s General, 96.
9. Lawrence Edward Babits, Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 16.
10. Golway, Washington’s General, 252, 254.
12. Charles Royster, Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1981), 14.
15. Babits, Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, 39.
16. Dan L. Morrill, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1993), 161.
17. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 496.
18. Babits, Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, 77.
19. Matthew H. Spring, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), 226.
20. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 788.
21. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 497.
23. Greene, The Papers of General Nathanael Greene, 7:446.
24. Greene, The Papers of General Nathanael Greene, 8:25.
25. Golway, Washington’s General, 261.
26. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 517.
27. Golway, Washington’s General, 269.
28. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 519.
29. Golway, Washington’s General, 261.
31. Greene, The Papers of General Nathanael Greene, 8:443.
32. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 518.
33. Golway, Washington’s General, 286.
34. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 519.
35. Golway, Washington’s General, 284.
Chapter 18: America Is Ours, 1781
1. Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 1626.
2. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 512.
3. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1654.
4. George Athan Billias, ed., George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 229.
5. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 511.
6. Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 219.
9. Paul David Nelson, Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 130.
10. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1633.
11. James Graham, The Life of General Daniel Morgan, of the Virginia Line of the Army of the United States, with Portions of His Correspondence; Comp. from Authentic Sources (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856), 395.
12. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1635.
13. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 515.
14. Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 282.
15. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1657.
16. Christopher Duffy, The Military Experience in the Age of Reason (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), 209.
17. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1658.
20. Richard M. Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution (New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 168.
22. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1673.
24. Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 209.
25. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 531.
26. William H. Hallahan, The Day the Revolution Ended: 19 October 1781 (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004), 180.
27. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1701.
28. North Callahan, Henry Knox, General Washington’s General (New York: Rinehart, 1958), 189.
31. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1704.
32. James Thacher, Military Journal, During the American Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783 (Hartford, CT: Silas Andrus & Son, 1854), 343.
33. Smith, A New Age Now Begins, 1705.
34. Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 242.
36. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 538.
37. Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 254.
38. Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life (New York: Random House, 2005), 343.
39. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 539.
Chapter 19: Our Troops, 1782
1. John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 548.
2. Paul David Nelson, Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 167.
3. Jerome A. Greene, The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781 (New York: Savas Beatie, 2005), 305–6.
4. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 541.
5. Richard M. Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution (New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 274.
6. Ferling, Almost a Miracle, 547.
7. Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 351, 358.
10. Joseph Plumb Martin, Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006), 105.
11. Royster, A Revolutionary People at War, 332.
12. Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life (New York: Random House, 2005), 349.
13. George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, eds., Rebels and Redcoats (Cleveland: World Pub., 1957), 502.
14. Martin, Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier, 159.
15. Scheer, Rebels and Redcoats, 502.
16. Martin, Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier, 160.
17. Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 237.
18. Ketchum, Victory at Yorktown, 288.
19. Scheer, Rebels and Redcoats, 504.
Chapter 20: The Large Hearts of Heroes, 1824
1. Stanley J. Idzerda, Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds: The Art and Pageantry of His Farewell Tour of America, 1824–1825 (Flushing, NY: Queens Museum, 1989), 3.
2. David A. Clary, Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution (New York: Bantam Books, 2007), 444.
3. George Athan Billias, ed., George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 239.
4. Mark Puls, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 204.
5. Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-era Women and the Radical Men They Married (Boston: Beacon Press, 2013), 197.
7. Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 313.
9. Billias, George Washington’s Generals and Opponents, 286.
10. Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (New York: Morrow, 1990), 613.
11. Gerard H. Clarfield, Timothy Pickering and the American Republic (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), 80.
12. Auguste Levasseur, Lafayette in America, in 1824 and 1825: Journal of a Voyage to the United States (Manchester, NH: Lafayette Press, 2006), 250–51.