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The Queen's American rangers / Doanld J. Gara.
Van Pelt Library E277.6.Q6 G37 2015
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gara, Donald J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Regimental histories.
- United States.
- History.
- Regimental histories.
- American loyalists.
- Queen's Rangers (1776-1781).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 405 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2015.
- Contents:
- 1 The Major Returns to America 1
- 2 The Eighteenth-Century British Army 8
- 3 Raising the Rangers, 1776 16
- 4 The Capture of Fort Washington and Fort Lee 31
- 5 The Siege of Fort Independence, 1777 36
- 6 Reorganization of the Rangers 46
- 7 Maneuvers in New Jersey 53
- 8 Bloody Day at Brandywine 63
- 9 Outpost Duty at Germantown 78
- 10 Skirmishes with the Rebels 87
- 11 Foraging in New Jersey, 1778 100
- 12 Quinton's Bridge and Hancock's Bridge 109
- 13 Crooked Billet and White Marsh, Pennsylvania 121
- 14 The Road to Monmouth Court House 131
- 15 Forward Post, Kingsbridge, New York 154
- 16 Winter Quarters, Oyster Bay, Long Island 176
- 17 Return to Kingsbridge 183
- 18 The Middlesex and Somerset Counties Raid 193
- 19 The Elizabethtown and Hoppertown Raids, 1780 205
- 20 The Siege of Charleston 215
- 21 Connecticut Farms and Springfield, New Jersey 223
- 22 March and Countermarch 233
- 23 Arnold's Raid Up the James River 240
- 24 Portsmouth Interlude 255
- 25 Phillips's Raid Up the James River 266
- 26 Charlottesville and Point of Fork 279
- 27 Spencer's Ordinary 292
- 28 Williamsburg to Yorktown 302
- 29 Taking Station at Yorktown and Gloucester 311
- 30 The Siege of Yorktown and Gloucester 318
- 31 Ranger Cavalry Operations in South Carolina, 1781 329
- 32 Aftermath 339.
- Notes:
- "First printing May 2015"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-394) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1594162255
- 9781594162251
- OCLC:
- 898425077
- Publisher Number:
- 99963528479
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