Revolution An Uncommon Chronicle of the American War for Independence

Revolution An Uncommon Chronicle of the American War for Independence
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&quot;Revolution&quot; is a chronicle of a remarkable contest fought between the largest, most powerful army on earth and a motley collection of men and boys, extremely ill equipped and inexperienced in the arts of warfare. It reveals how the radical revolutionaries, revered today as the nation&#39;s founding fathers, sometimes barely succeed and more often miserably fail to keep a healthy Continental army and a pusillanimous Continental Congress together.<br><br>Written in the present tense, as newspaper articles and interviews, &quot;Revolution&quot; is also the story of a civil conflict fought in a divided country where the words &quot;liberty&quot; and &quot;independence&quot; are equally cheered, cursed and ignored.

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Kenneth JD Samcoe. Revolution An Uncommon Chronicle of the American War for Independence

Preface

Introduction

1775. BRITISH TROOPS ATTACK LEXINGTON!

MORE DEATHS AT CONCORD

BRITISH ON THE RUN!

A CONVERSATION WITH A REBEL LEADER

RIOTS IN NEW YORK! BOSTON EVACUATED!

REBELS CAPTURE TICONDEROGA

GAGE GETS HELP FROM HOME

WASHINGTON NAMED REBEL COMMANDER

BRITISH ATTACK MAINLAND!

A CONVERSATION WITH GENERAL WASHINGTON

REBELS INVADE CANADA!

CONGRESS CREATES WAR DEPARTMENT

A CONVERSATION WITH MR. ANONYMOUS

SURGEON GENERAL ARRESTED FOR TREASON

GAGE IS GONE

REBEL CONGRESS AT ARMY HEADQUARTERS

BRITISH SURRENDER ST. JOHNS

REBELS OCCUPY MONTREAL

REBELS DEFEATED AT QUEBEC!

1776 “COMMON SENSE” HAILED BY WASHINGTON

BRITISH SHELLING LEVELS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA!

REBELS OCCUPY DORCHESTER HEIGHTS

SPRING STORMS HALT BRITISH INVASION

A CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS PAINE

HOWE SAILS OFF

REBEL ARMY IN NEW YORK

A CONVERSATION WITH A MODERATE

GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA OVERTHROWN

REBELS DRIVEN SOUTH IN CANADA

A CONVERSATION WITH A LOYALIST

BRITISH TURNED BACK AT CHARLESTON

A CONVERSATION WITH A PATRIOT

REBELS REJECT CONFEDERACY

REBEL CONGRESS DECLARES INDEPENDENCE!

A CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS JEFFERSON

BRITISH LAND ON STATEN ISLAND

A CONVERSATION WITH A REBEL BRIGADIER

REBELS ROUTED ON LONG ISLAND

REBELS EVACUATE NEW YORK CITY

REBELS SNARL BACK

PEACE TALKS FAIL

NEW YORK CITY BURNS!

REBEL FLEET DESTROYED IN NORTH

FORT WASHINGTON FALLS TO BRITISH ARMY!

CORNWALLIS TAKES FORT LEE

BRITISH MARCH THROUGH NEWARK

GENERAL LEE CAUGHT BY BRITISH

A CONVERSATION WITH MR. A

“CRISIS PAPER” CAROLS REBEL CAUSE

REBELS ATTACK TRENTON!

1777. REBELS OVERRUN PRINCETON

WAR POSTPONED

A CONVERSATION WITH A CONTINENTAL REGULAR

THE WAR IS ON

BRITISH CAPTURE TICONDEROGA!

A CONVERSATION WITH A REBEL SURGEON GENERAL

SCHUYLER DISMISSED

REBEL VICTORY IN NORTH!

BRITISH LAND AT ELK RIVER

BRITISH BREAK THROUGH REBEL LINES

REBELS TURN BACK BURGOYNE

PHILADELPHIA FALLS!

REBEL PINCER CRUMBLES

BURGOYNE BEATEN AT BEMIS HEIGHTS

BURGOYNE SURRENDERS!

REBELS LIMP TO VALLEY FORGE

1778. DISSENSION IN REBEL CAMP

A CONVERSATION WITH MR. A

FLOATING “INFERNOS” PANIC PHILADELPHIA

FRANCE IS IN!

HOWE IS OUT

BRITISH ABANDON PHILADELPHIA!

AMERICAN FIASCO AT MONMOUTH

A CONVERSATION WITH MR. A

THE FRENCH ARE HERE!

THE FRENCH SAIL OFF

MASSACRE AT CHERRY VALLEY

A CONVERSATION WITH MR. A

PATRIOTS WHIPPED AT SAVANNAH

1779. SCANDAL ROCKS PATRIOT CONGRESS

1780. CHARLESTON FALLS TO CLINTON

GATES GIVEN PATRIOTS’ SOUTHERN ARMY

PATRIOTS ROUTED AT CAMDEN

A CONVERSATION WITH MR. A

ARNOLD TURNS COAT!

LOYALISTS CUT DOWN AT KING’S MOUNTAIN

GATES DISMISSED

1781. MUTINY AT MORRISTOWN!

LOYALISTS CRUSHED AT COWPENS

PATRIOTS CHECKED AT GUILFORD COURTHOUSE

A CONVERSATION WITH MR. A

CONGRESS BROKE!

A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT MORRIS

CONGRESS NAMES PEACE COMMISSION

MASSACHUSETTS’ COURT DECLARES SLAVERY UNCONSTITUTIONAL

A CONVERSATION WITH CONSTANIA

ARNOLD BURNS NEW LONDON

STANDOFF AT EUTAW SPRINGS

ALLIED ARMIES AT WILLIAMSBURG

CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS!

1783. THE WAR IS OVER!!

ARMY OFFICERS THREATEN REVOLT

WASHINGTON RESIGNS

Selected Bibliography

The Players Afterward

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Several years ago I ran into writer’s block while working on a historical novel centered at the life of the 18th century revolutionary, Thomas Paine. When curbed like this in the past I would peruse a rather extensive collection of notes until a certain character or event I happened upon shoved the block aside and moved me forward. This didn’t happen, though, and I found myself parked at a wall with my writing machine stuck in neutral.

Before I filed those notes away I looked at them again and began to see the beginning of a chronicle. I remembered friends who had read portions of the unfinished novel wishing aloud that they knew more about our revolution than what they came away with from school, and I decided to attempt a short history of our revolution for them and others like them.

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Will you invade Boston?

We intend to fortify our positions, that’s all I care to comment on at this time.

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