TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
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Early Aptitudes for Success[1]
CHAPTER II.
The Ferment of American Liberty[10]
CHAPTER III.
The Outbreak of Repressed Liberty[20]
CHAPTER IV.
Armed America needs a Soldier[31]
CHAPTER V.
Washington in Command[41]
CHAPTER VI.
British Canada enters the Field of Action[50]
CHAPTER VII.
Howe succeeds Gates.—Closing Scenes of 1775[58]
CHAPTER VIII.
America against Britain.—Boston taken[68]
CHAPTER IX.
Systematic War with Britain begun[82]
CHAPTER X.
Britain against America.—Howe invades New York[93]
CHAPTER XI.
Battle of Long Island[101]
CHAPTER XII.
Washington in New York[114]
CHAPTER XIII.
Washington tenders, and Howe declines, Battle.—Harlem Heights and White Plains[125]
CHAPTER XIV.
The First New Jersey Campaign.—Trenton[134]
CHAPTER XV.
The First New Jersey Campaign developed.—Princeton[150]
CHAPTER XVI.
The American Base of Operations established.—The Second New Jersey Campaign[160]
CHAPTER XVII.
British Invasion from Canada.—Operations along the Hudson[171]
CHAPTER XVIII.
Pennsylvania invaded.—Battle of Brandywine[181]
CHAPTER XIX.
Washington resumes the Offensive.—Battle of Germantown[192]
CHAPTER XX.
Jealousy and Greed defeated.—Valley Forge[198]
CHAPTER XXI.
Philadelphia and Valley Forge in Winter, 1778[210]
CHAPTER XXII.
From Valley Forge to White Plains again.—Battle of Monmouth[221]
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Alliance with France takes effect.—Siege of Newport[238]
CHAPTER XXIV.
Minor Events and Grave Conditions, 1779[246]
CHAPTER XXV.
Minor Operations of 1779 continued.—Stony Point taken.—New England relieved[255]
CHAPTER XXVI.
Shifting Scenes.—Temper of the People.—Savannah[263]
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Eventful Year 1780.—New Jersey once more invaded[269]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Battle of Springfield.—Rochambeau.—Arnold.—Gates[282]
CHAPTER XXIX.
A Bird’s-eye View of the Theatre of War[294]
CHAPTER XXX.
The Soldier tried.—American Mutiny.—Foreign Judgment.—Arnold’s Depredations[304]
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Southern Campaign, 1781, outlined.—Cowpens.—Guilford Court-house.—Eutaw Springs[312]
CHAPTER XXXII.
Lafayette in Pursuit of Arnold.—The End in Sight.—Arnold in the British Army[323]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
New York and Yorktown threatened.—Cornwallis inclosed by Lafayette[333]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
British Captains outgeneraled.—Washington joins Lafayette[344]
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Alliance with France vindicated.—Washington’s Magnanimity.—His Benediction[352]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Washington’s Prediction realized.—The Attitude of America pronounced[366]
Appendix A.—American Army, by States[377]
Appendix B.—American Navy and its Career[378]
Appendix C.—Comparisons with Later Wars[380]
Appendix D.—British Army, at Various Dates[383]
Appendix E.—Organization of Burgoyne’s Army[387]
Appendix F.—Organization of Cornwallis’s Army[388]
Appendix G.—Notes of Lee’s Court-martial[389]
Glossary of Military Terms[393]
Chronological and Biographical Index[397]