After Yorktown : the final struggle for American independence / Don Glickstein.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Glickstein, Don, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States-History-Revolution, 1775-1783.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
• United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783.
• Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781.

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.

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-59416-603-X

OCLC:

1196177049