Key to the northern country : the Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution / edited by James M. Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, and Andrew Villani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, James M., 1947 June 28-

Pryslopski, Christopher, 1974-

Villani, Andrew, 1986-

Series:

SUNY series, an American region.

SUNY series, an American region : studies in the Hudson Valley

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

New York (State).

Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--History--18th century.

Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, Albany : Excelsior Editions, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley's role in the American Revolution.The Hudson River Valley, which George Washington referred to as the "Key to the Northern Country," played a central role in the American Revolution. From 1776 to 1780, with major battles fought at Saratoga, Fort Montgomery, and Stony Point, the region was a central battleground of the Revolution. In addition, it witnessed some of the most dramatic and memorable aspects of the war, such as Benedict Arnold's failed conspiracy at West Point, the burning of New York's capital at Kingston, and the more than six-hundred-mile march of Washington and the Continental Army and Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and his French Expeditionary Corps to Yorktown, Virginia. Compiled from essays that appeared in the Hudson Valley Regional Review and the Hudson River Valley Review, published by the Hudson River Valley Institute, the book illustrates the richly textured history of this supremely important time and place.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438448138

1438448139

OCLC:

923419610