From the Reference - First American edition.
From resistance to rebellion before 1775. The thirteen colonies ; Colonial society ; The French and Indian War ; Testing loyalties ; Raising revenue ; Boston erupts ; The Boston Massacre ; Sam Adams ; Westward expansion and the frontier ; The Boston Tea Party ; The tea saboteurs ; The Intolerable Acts ; The First Continental Congress ; Lord North
The start of the War, 1775. Lexington and Concord ; Paul Revere's ride ; The Siege of Boston and Bunker Hill ; The Battle of Bunker Hill ; The Second Continental Congress ; Militia and the Continental Army ; Patriot uniforms ; The Loyalists ; Loyalists under pressure ; The Proclamation of Rebellion ; King George III ; The South ; African American Loyalists ; The invasion of Canada
Birth of a nation, 1776. British strategy ; Redcoats ; British uniforms ; A serving redcoat ; The philosophy of revolt ; The liberation of Boston ; Transporting artillery ; Artillery ; The South chooses sides ; Henry Clinton ; Battle of Sullivan's Island ; The Declaration of Independence ; Crafting the declaration ; Thomas Jefferson ; Battle of Long Island ; George Washington ; Retreat from New York ; Running the Hudson River barricade ; The threat from Canada ; Trenton and Princeton
The struggle for mastery, 1777. The forage war ; The British in New Jersey ; European assistance ; Marquis de Lafayette ; African American patriots ; An African American militiaman ; Burgoyne's offensive ; German mercenaries ; The German experience in America ; German equipment and uniforms ; The British in upper New York ; The Battle of Saratoga ; Surrender at Saratoga ; Prisoners of war ; Life on a British prison ship ; The Philadelphia campaign
A widening war, 1778. Facing stalemate ; Winter at Valley Forge ; The army at Valley Forge ; French intervention ; Benjamin Franklin ; American options ; Rethinking British strategy ; The march from Philadelphia ; Molly Pitcher ; Women and the Revolution ; Abigail Adams ; The war in the North ; Muskets and rifles ; British resurgence
Conflict spreads, 1779. War on the periphery ; The war at sea ; Naval equipment and weapons ; HMS Serapis versus Bonhomme Richard ; John Paul Jones ; Native Americans at war ; Native American raid ; Joseph Brant ; Native American weapons ; Deadlock in New York ; The Ohio; ;The march on Vincennes ; The Siege of Savannah ; The death of Casimir Pulaski
The continuing struggle, 1780. New York theater ; Betrayal at West Point ; Execution of John André ; Benedict Arnold ; Caring for the wounded ; Medical equipment ; The Siege of Charleston ; Guerrilla war in South Carolina ; Impressions of the "Swamp Fox" ; Banastre Tarleton ; The Battle of Camden ; Horatio Gates ; The Battle of Kings Mountain ; Pistols and swords
America victorious, 1781-83. The Battle of Cowpens ; The North Carolina campaign ; Action at Guilford Court House ; Charles Cornwallis ; Success in Georgia and the Carolinas ; The Battle of the Chesapeake ; The Yorktown Campaign ; Surrender at Yorktown ; The British surrender ; Negotiating peace ; Treaty of Paris
Aftermath : a stronger union. Cost of war ; The limits of confederation ; James Madison ; The Constitutional Convention ; Signing the Constitution ; President Washington ; Washington's inaugural address ; The American West ; The irrepressible conflicts ; The revolution remembered ; In their footsteps.
