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.

United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783.

Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781.

Yorktown (Va.).

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.

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ISBN:

1-59416-603-X

OCLC:

1196177049