After Yorktown : the final struggle for American independence / Don Glickstein.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme Publishing, 2014.
- Summary:
- After the Humiliating Defeat at Yorktown in 1781, George III Vowed to Keep Fighting the Rebels and Their Allies Around the World, Holding a New Nation in the Balance Although most people think the American Revolution ended with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, it did not.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Reference Maps
- Introduction: How to End a War
- Part One: Surrender
- 1. The Treaty
- 2. O'Hara's Wars
- 3. Rochambeau and Washington
- Part Two: The South
- 4. Rice and the Low Country
- 5. General Leslie Comes to Charlestown
- 6. The Deputy Savior
- 7. The "Bloodiest, Cruel War"
- 8. North Carolina: Two Combustible Commanders
- 9. Georgia: "Making Bricks Without Straw"
- 10. Leslie's Work
- 11. "Howlings of a Triple-Headed Monster"
- 12. The Swamp Fox Meets His Match
- 13. "Bloody Bill" Cunningham Raids the Backcountry
- 14. Laurens and His Glory
- 15. At Last, the Evacuation
- Part Three: The Frontier
- 16. Indians
- 17. The Death of Colonel Butler
- 18. Massacre and Revenge
- 19. Ambush at Blue Licks
- 20. Final Fights on the Ohio
- 21. Sevier Hunts for Dragging Canoe
- 22. Arkansas Post and the Spanish Frontier
- 23. Between Two Hells
- Part Four: The Caribbean
- 24. Riches
- 25. The Golden Rock
- 26. More British Humiliations
- 27. Battle of the Saintes
- 28. Flip-flops in Central America
- 29. A Future Hero
- Part Five: The Sea and the Raiders
- 30. Britannia Doesn't Rule the Waves
- 31. French Disaster, British Tragedy
- 32. Secret Mission to the Arctic
- 33. Coastal War: Halifax to Boston
- 34. Coastal War: Delaware to Chesapeake
- Part Six: The Mediterranean
- 35. "Calamity Has Come On Us"
- 36. The Great Siege of Gibraltar
- Part Seven: The Battle for India
- 37. Hyder Ali: The "Most Formidable Enemy"
- 38. Coote and Hughes to the Rescue
- 39. Suffren's "Lust for Action"
- 40. The Final Battles
- Part Eight: Washington and Carleton
- 41. New Leader, Old Leader
- 42. Refugees and the Book of Negroes
- 43. Evacuation Day
- Notes
- Bibliography and Acknowledgments
- Index.
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- ISBN:
- 1-59416-603-X
- OCLC:
- 1196177049
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