The American Revolution : writings from the War of Independence
(Book)

Average Rating

Contributors

Rhodehamel, John H.

Published

Format

Book

ISBN

1883011914, 9781883011918

Physical Desc

xviii, 878 pages ; 21 cm.

Status

Adult (4th Floor) - Adult Nonfiction
973.3 Ame
1 available

Description

Loading Description...

Also in this Series

Checking series information...

Copies

Location	Call Number	Status
Adult (4th Floor) - Adult Nonfiction	973.3 Ame	Available

More Like This

Loading more titles like this title...

Paul Revere : memorandum on events of April 18, 1775 (The war begins : Massachusetts, April 1775)

Frederick MacKenzie : diary, April 18-21, 1775 (The British Retreat from Concord : Massachusetts, April 1775)

Thomas Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth, April 22, 1775 ("Fire from every hill, fence, house, barn" : Massachusetts, April 1775)

John Dickinson to Arthur Lee, April 29, 1775 (A Pennsylvanian reacts to Lexington and Concord : April 1775)

Peter Oliver : from "The origin & progress of the American rebellion" (A Tory view of Lexington and Concord : Spring 1775)

George Washington : address to the Continental Congress, June 16, 1775 (Washington accepts command : Philadelphia, June 1775)

John Adams to Abigail Adams, June 17, 1775 (Washington's appointment : June 1775).

Eliphalet Dyer to Joseph Trumbull, June 17, 1775 (An appraisal of Washington : June 1775)

Samuel Blachley Webb to Joseph Webb, June 19, 1775 (Battle of Bunker Hill : Massachusetts, June 1775)

George Washington to Burwell Bassett, June 19, 1775 ("Imbarkd on a tempestuous ocean" : June 1775)

John Adams to Abigail Adams, June 23, 1775 (Washington leaves for Boston : June 1775)

Peter Oliver : from "The origin & progress of the American rebellion" (A Tory view of Bunker Hill : Summer 1775)

Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, July 5, 1775 ("You are now my enemy" : July 1775)

The Continental Congress : address to the six nations, July 13, 1775 (An appeal to the Iroquois : July 1775)

Abigail Adams to John Adams, July 16, 1775 (A visit with Washington : July 1775)

Lord Rawdon to the Earl of Huntingdon, August 3, 1775 (A British account of Bunker Hill : August 1775).

Ethan Allen : from "A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity" (An American defeat in Canada : September 1775)

To the "Virginia Gazette", November 24, 1775 (Response to Lord Dunmore's proclamation : November 1775)

William Woodford to Edmund Pendleton, December 5, 1775 (Slaves fighting with the British : Virginia, December 1775)

Martha Washington to Elizabeth Ramsay, December 30, 1775 (The Continental Army outside Boston : December 1775)

Isaac Senter : journal, November 1-December 31, 1775 (The invasion of Canada : 1775)

Sarah Hodgkins and Joseph Hodgkins, February 1-20, 1776 (A continental officer and his wife correspond : February 1776)

John Bowater to the Earl of Denbigh, March 25, 1776 (The British evacuate Boston : March 1776)

Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776 ("Remember the ladies" : March 1776).

Peter Oliver : from "The origin & progress of the American rebellion" (A Tory view of the seige of Boston : Fall 1775-Spring 1776)

John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776 (Congress votes for independence : July 1776)

The declaration of independence (Philadelphia, July 4, 1776)

Isaac Bangs : journal, July 10, 1776 (New York celebrates independence : July 1776)

Landon Carter : diary, June 26-July 16, 1776 (Slaves join the British : Virginia, Summer 1776)

Ambrose Serle : journal, July 12-23, 1776 (The British fleet arrives at New York : July 1776)

Joseph Reed : memorandum on meeting between George Washington and James Paterson, July 20, 1776 (Washington refuses to negotiate : New York, July 1776)

Benjamin Franklin to Lord Howe, July 20, 1776 ("It is impossible we should think of submission" : July 1776)

Henry Laurens to John Laurens, August 14, 1776 (Events in South Carolina : Summer 1776).

Philip Vickers Fithian : journal, August 11-30, 1776 (The continental army at New York : August 1776)

Jabez Fitch : diary, August 27-28, 1776 (Battle of Long Island : August 1776)

Henry Strachey : memorandum on meeting between Lord Howe and the American commissioners, September 11, 1776 (A British peace plan fails : September 1776)

Ambrose Serle : journal, August 22-September 15, 1776 (British victories at New York : Summer 1776)

Philip Vickers Fithian : journal, September 15, 1776 (Battle of Kips Bay : New York, September 1776)

Benjamin Trumbull : journal, September 15-16, 1776 (Kips Bay and Harlem Heights : New York, September 1776)

Frederick MacKenzie : diary, September 20-22, 1776 (The burning of New York : September 1776)

Robert Auchmuty to the Earl of Huntingdon, January 8, 1777 (Capture of Fort Washington : New York, November 1776).

George Washington to Lund Washington, December 10 and 17, 1776 (The American retreat : Pennsylvania, December 1776)

Thomas Paine : the American crisis, number I, December 19, 1776 (Philadelphia, December 1776)

Thomas Rodney : diary, December, 18-25, 1776 (Defending Philadelphia : Pennsylvania, December, 1776)

George Washington to John Hancock, December 27, 1776 (Battle of Trenton : New Jersey, December 1776)

Thomas Rodney : diary, January 2-4, 1777 (Battle of Princeton : New Jersey, January 1777)

Nicholas Cresswell : journal, January 5-17, 1777 (News of Trenton : Virginia, January 1777)

Jabez Fitch : narrative (American prisoners in New York : August 1776-January 1777)

John Peebles : diary, February 13-24, 1777 (Skirmishing in New Jersey : February 1777)

Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 8, 1777 (Hardship in Massachusetts : March 1777).

John Burgoyne : proclamation, June 23, 1777 ("The vengeance of the state" : New York, June 1777)

William Digby : journal, July 24-October 13, 1777 (The Saratoga campaign : New York, July-October 1777)

John André : journal, August 31-October 4, 1777 (The fall of Philadelphia : Pennsylvania, August-October 1777)

John Glover to Jonathan Glover and Azor Orne, September 21 and 29, 1777 (Battle of Freeman's farm : New York, September 1777)

John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 30, 1777 (Congress flees Philadelphia : September 1777)

Samuel Shaw to Francis Shaw, September 30, October 3, 13, and 15, 1777 (Battle of Germantown : Pennsylvania, October 1777)

Robert Morton : diary, September 16-December 14, 1777 (Occupation of Philadelphia : September-December 1777).

Sarah Wister : journal, October 19-December 12, 1777 (The Continental army at Whitemarsh: Pennsylvania, October-December 1777)

George Washington : general orders, December 17, 1777 (The army seeks winter quarters : Pennsylvania, December 1777) Albigence Waldo : diary, December 11-29, 1777 (The army moves to Valley Forge : Pennsylvania, December 1777)

John Laurens to Henry Laurens, January 14 and February 2, 1778 (A proposal to free and arm slaves : January-February 1778)

John Laurens to Henry Laurens, May 7, 1778 (News of the French Alliance : Valley Forge, May 1778)

Ambrose Serle : journal, March 9-June 19, 1778 (The British abandon Philadelphia : March-June 1778)

The Continental Congress : response to British peace proposals, June 13-17, 1778 (York, Pennsylvania, June 1778)

Henry Laurens to Horatio Gates, June 17, 1778 ("The door is shut" : June 1778).

John André : journal, June 16-July 5, 1778 (The British retreat to New York : New Jersey, June-July 1778)

James McHenry : journal, June 18-July 23, 1778 (The American advance : New Jersey, June-July 1778)

John Laurens to Henry Laurens, June 30 and July 2, 1778 (Battle of Monmouth : New Jersey, June 1778)

J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur : narrative of the Wyoming massacre (Frontier warfare : Pennsylvania, July 1778)

Peter Oliver : from "The origin & progress of the American rebellion" (A Tory view of frontier warfare : Summer 1778)

George Washingotn to Henry Laurens, November 14, 1778 (Opposing a proposal to invade Canada : November 1778)

George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, December 18, 1778 (The weakness of congress : December 1778)

Stephen De Lancey to Cornelia Barclay De Lancey, January 14, 1779 (The fall of Savannah : Georgia, January 1779).

George Rogers Clark : narrative of the march to Vincennes (Capture of Vincennes : Illinois country, February 1779)

Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, March 14, 1779 ("To give them their freedom with their muskets" : March 1779)

George Washington to Henry Laurens, March 20, 1779 (Arming slaves "a moot point" : March 1779)

Samuel Shaw to Francis and Sarah Shaw, June 28, 1779 (Depreciation of continental currency : New York, June 1779)

"A whig" : to the public, July 30, 1779 (Banishing Tories : Philadelphia, July 1779)

William Barton : journal, August 27-September 14, 1779 (War against the Iroquois : New York, August-September 1779)

John Paul Jones to Benjamin Franklin, October 3, 1779 (Battle in the North Sea : October 1779).

William Moultrie : journal, April 2-Mary 12, 1780 (The seige of Charleston : South Carolina, April-May 1780)

The sentiments of a lady in New Jersey, July 12, 1780 (Aiding the continental army : July 1780)

Otho Holland Williams : narrative of the battle of Camden (An American rout : South Carolina, August 1780)

Royal Gazette : "Strayed ... a whole army," September 16, 1780 (A loyalist satire : New York, September 1780)

Benedict Arnold : to the inhabitants of America, October 7, 1780 (Arnold justifies his actions : New York, October 1780)

Benedict Arnold to Lord Germain, October 7, 1780 (A report on the continental army : New York, October 1780)

Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, c. October 11, 1780 (Arnold and Major André : New York, September-October 1780)

Robert Campbell : Narrative of the Battle of King's Mountain (South Carolina, October 1780).

George Washington : circular to the state governments, October 18, 1780 (An appeal for new troops ; October 1780)

Anthony Allaire ; diary, October 7-November 25, 1780 (A loyalist prisoner : South Carolina, October-November 1780)

Eno Reeves : letterbook extracts, January 2-17, 1781 (Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line : New Jersey, January 1781)

Oliver De Lancey : journal, January 3-21, 1781 (British attempts to exploit the mutiny : New Jersey, January 1781)

George Washington to Philip Schuyler, January 10, 1781 ("The event, which I have long dreaded" : January 1781)

Nathanael Greene to Alexander Hamilton, January 10, 1781 (The plight of the southern army : South Carolina, January 1781)

Nathanael Green to Catherine Greene, January 12, 1781 ("The distress and misery that prevails" : South Carolina January 1781)

Thomas Jefferson : narrative of Arnold's raid, January 13, 1781 (The British attack Richmond : Virginia, January 1781).

Daniel Morgan to Nathanael Greene, January 19, 1781 (Battle of Cowpens : South Carolina, January 1781)

George Washington to Robert Howe, January 22, 1781 (Mutiny of the New Jersey Line : New Jersey, January 1781)

Royal Gazette : "Our last will and testament," January 31, 1781 (A loyalist satire of Congress : New York, January 1781)

Nathanael Greene to George Washington, February 9, 1781 (Cornwallis invades North Carolina : February 1781)

Nathanael Greene to Joseph Reed, March 18, 1781 (Battle of Guilford Courthouse : North Carolina, March 1781)

Nathanael Greene to George Washington, March 18, 1781 (Prospects for defeating Cornwallis : March 1781)

Nathanael Greene to Thomas Jefferson, April 28, 1781 (An appeal for support from Virginia : April 1781)

Ebenezer Denny : Journal, May 1-15, 1781 (The Pennsylvania Line marches south : May 1781).

Thomas Brown to David Ramsay, December 25, 1786 (The war in Georgia : November 1778-June 1781)

Josiah Atkins : diary, June 5-July 7, 1781 (The campaign in Virginia : June-July 1781)

Ebenezer Denny : journal, June 18-July 7, 1781 (Skirmishing in Virginia : June-July 1781)

James Robertson to William Knox, July 12, 1781 (The British consider occupying Yorktown : July 1781)

Otho Holland Williams : narrative of the battle of Eutaw Springs (South Carolina, September 1781)

Ebenezer Denny : journal, September 1-November 1, 1781 (The Yorktown campaign : Virginia, September-November 1781)

St. George Tucker ; journal, September 28-October 20, 1781 (Siege of Yorktown ; Virginia, September-October 1781)

James Robertson to Lord Amherst, October 17, 1781 (The British relief expedition sets sail : New York, October 1781)

Lord Cornwallis to Henry Clinton, October 20, 1781 (Cornwallis surrenders : Virginia, October 1781).

Anna Rawle : diary, October 25, 1781 (Victory celebrations in Philadelphia : October 1781)

Robert Gray : observations on the war in Carolina (Partisan warfare in the South : May 1780-February 1782)

William Feilding to the Earl of Denbigh, August 10, 1782 (New York loyalists fear peace ; August 1782)

Ebenezer Denny : journal, January 4-December 13, 1781 (The war ends in South Carolina : January-December 1782)

John Armstrong : The Newburgh address, c. March 10, 1783 (An officer urges disobedience to Congress : New York, March 1783)

George Washington to Joseph Jones, March 12, 1783 (Political intrigue and the army : New York, March 1783).

George Washington : speech to the officers, March 15, 1783 ("The flood gates of civil discord" : New York, March 1783)

Samuel Shaw to the Rev. Eliot, c. April 1783 (Washington at Newburgh : New York, April 1783)

A New York loyalist to Lord Hardwicke, c. Summer 1783 (Loyalist emigration : New York, Summer 1783)

George Washington and Thomas Mifflin : speeches in the continental congress, December 23, 1783 (Washington resigns his commisstion : Annapolis, December 1783)

James McHenry to Margaret Caldwell, December 23, 1783 ("The revolution just accomplished" : Annapolis, December 1783)

Chronology.

Subjects

LC Subjects

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources.

OCLC Fast Subjects

American Revolution (1775-1783)
History.
Personal narratives.
Sources.
United States.

Other Subjects

American Revolution -- Autobiography.
American Revolution -- Collected Correspondence.

More Details

Published

Language

English

ISBN

1883011914, 9781883011918

Notes

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description

This volume contains writings drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public documents, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda from more than 70 participants--American and British, Patriot and Loyalist, military and civilian. The writings describe the most dramatic events of the War of Independence: the early battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, the failed invasion of Canada, the 1776 campaign in New York and New Jersey, the battle of Saratoga, the bitter cold of Valley Forge, the fighting in the South and along the Western frontier, the treachery of Benedict Arnold, and the triumph at Yorktown.

Published Reviews

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Rhodehamel, J. H. (2001). The American Revolution: writings from the War of Independence . Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Penguin Putnam.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rhodehamel, John H. 2001. The American Revolution: Writings From the War of Independence. Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Penguin Putnam.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rhodehamel, John H. The American Revolution: Writings From the War of Independence Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Penguin Putnam, 2001.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Rhodehamel, John H. The American Revolution: Writings From the War of Independence Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Penguin Putnam, 2001.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

Staff View

Loading Staff View.

Navigation

The American Revolution : writings from the War of Independence
(Book)

Description

Also in this Series

Copies

More Like This

Table of Contents

Excerpt

Author Notes

Subjects

More Details

Notes

Similar Series From NoveList

Similar Titles From NoveList

Similar Authors From NoveList

Published Reviews

Reviews from GoodReads

Citations

Staff View

The American Revolution : writings from the War of Independence(Book)

Description

Also in this Series

Copies

More Like This

Table of Contents

Excerpt

Author Notes

Subjects

More Details

Notes

Similar Series From NoveList

Similar Titles From NoveList

Similar Authors From NoveList

Published Reviews

Reviews from GoodReads

Citations

Staff View

The American Revolution : writings from the War of Independence
(Book)