Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British EyesW. W. Norton & Company, 2002 - 375 páginas The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent--a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts, Redcoats and Rebels presents a vivid and convincing picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever. 16 pages of illustrations. "Hibbert combines impeccable scholarship with a liveliness of style that lures the reader from page to page."--Sunday Telegraph |
Índice
Sons of Liberty | 3 |
First Blood | 17 |
Bunker Hill | 42 |
Washington Takes Command | 64 |
An Ugly Job | 76 |
The War in Canada | 88 |
Disasters in Virginia | 101 |
Part Two | 111 |
Fighting at Monmouth Court House | 220 |
Enemies of the French | 227 |
Part Three | 237 |
Marching through Georgia | 239 |
Quarrels in New York | 248 |
Butchers and Patriots | 256 |
Slaughter on Kings Mountain | 270 |
The Traitor and the Spy | 290 |
The Declaration of Independence | 113 |
The Battle for New York | 119 |
Generals at Loggerheads | 133 |
Winter on the Delaware | 143 |
The Fall of Philadelphia | 153 |
The Army of the North | 162 |
Surrender at Saratoga | 182 |
The English Debate | 201 |
Intrigues at Valley Forge | 212 |
With Cornwallis in the Carolinas | 298 |
The Road to Yorktown | 314 |
Epilogue | 333 |
The Fate of Characters Whose End Is Not Recorded in the Text | 339 |
Bibliography | 347 |
Illustration Credits | 359 |
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Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes Christopher Hibbert Pré-visualização indisponível - 1991 |
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