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| Prelude to Independence | |
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| Why Did Washington Cross the Delaware? | |
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| You Call This Tyranny? | |
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| Mother Knows Best | |
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| You're Grounded | |
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| Identity Crisis | |
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| God Made Us Englishmen | |
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| Pay, Pay, Pay | |
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| Taxation Without Representation | |
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| E Pluribus Unum and All That | |
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| In the Wake of Columbus | |
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| Why Europe Needed a New World | |
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| The Weaver's Son | |
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| Hard Sell | |
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| Passage to India | |
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| Whose World Is It, Anyway? | |
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| Conquistadors | |
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| Borderlands | |
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| The First American Revolutions | |
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| The Brits Weigh In | |
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| King Henry's Sailor | |
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| Long Search for a Shortcut | |
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| The Starving Time | |
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| Phantom Colony at Roanoke | |
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| The Jamestown Venture | |
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| The Colonial Way | |
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| A New Israel in the New World | |
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| The Pilgrims' Progress | |
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| What Did the Mayflower Bring? | |
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| Plymouth Rock and a Hard Place | |
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| Many Mansions: Departures from the Puritan Path | |
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| Freedom in Rhode Island | |
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| Catholic Mary Land | |
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| Two Carolinas | |
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| Pennsylvania's Friendly Persuasion | |
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| Georgia: Prison and Utopia | |
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| Unwilling Immigrants: The Arrival of the Slaves | |
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| French Designs | |
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| Champlain, New World Booster | |
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| The Sun King's Ambitions | |
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| Dutch Treat | |
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| The Bonds of Commerce | |
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| Wilderness Wars | |
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| New England Bleeds | |
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| Twilight of the Pequots | |
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| The Costliest War in American History | |
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| The French and Indian Wars | |
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| King William's War | |
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| Queen Anne's War | |
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| Wars Against the Tuscarora and Yemasee | |
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| King George's War | |
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| The French and Indian War | |
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| France and England Stake Their Claims | |
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| First in War: George Washington Fights | |
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| "Who Would Have Thought It?" | |
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| Pitt Turns the Tide | |
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| The "Provincials" Learn a Lesson | |
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| All the King's Men | |
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| "A Clod of a Boy" | |
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| Writs of Assistance | |
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| Colonial Cash Cow | |
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| Pontiac Rebels and the King Draws a Line | |
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| No Taxation Without Representation | |
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| The Sugar Act | |
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| The Stamp Act | |
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| Quartering Act | |
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| The Stamp Act Congress | |
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| Townshend Tries to Cash In | |
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| Letters Forged in the Fires of Liberty | |
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| Massachusetts Circular Letter | |
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| Farmer's Letters | |
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| Regulators, Rioters, and a Massacre in Boston | |
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| Falling Apart at the Frontier | |
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| The North Carolina "Regulators" | |
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| A Bloody Act | |
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| Crushed at Alamance | |
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| New Yorkers Fight the "Battle" of Golden Hill | |
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| The Liberty Affair | |
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| Unwelcome in Boston | |
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| Taunts and Shots: The Boston Massacre | |
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| Counsel for the Defense | |
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| The Master of Propaganda | |
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| Tea Parties and Sons of Liberty | |
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| Not-So-Secret Societies | |
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| Rebels with a Cause | |
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| A Reign of Tar and Feathers | |
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| The Gaspee Burns | |
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| Sam Adams Brews a Revolution | |
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| Anyone for Tea? | |
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| The Party's On! | |
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| The Intolerable Acts | |
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| The Martyrdom of Massachusetts | |
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| The Quebec Act | |
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| Rally 'Round | |
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| Call for a Congress--and a False Start | |
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| Overtures | |
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| Heard 'Round the World | |
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| The Midnight Ride | |
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| No Retreat | |
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| A Silversmith of Charlestown | |
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| Paul Revere's First Warning | |
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| Riders of the Night | |
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| War Begins | |
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| Misjudgment Both Ways | |
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| Lexington | |
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| And Concord | |
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| Retreat to Boston | |
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| "Nothing Is Heard Now But the Trumpet and the Drum" | |
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| Green Mountains and Bunker Hill | |
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| "In the Name of Jehovah and the Continental Congress" | |
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| Meet Ethan Allen | |
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| The Taking of Fort Ti | |
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| "I Do Not Think Myself Equal to the Command" | |
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| Creation of the Continental Army | |
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| Yankee Doodle Versus a War Machine | |
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| General Washington | |
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| Gallantry at Bunker Hill | |
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| Prescott Occupies the "Wrong" Hill | |
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| The British Attack | |
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| "Greater Than We Can Bear" | |
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| The Vanquished Triumph | |
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| Canadian Sunset | |
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| The Fourteenth Colony? | |
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| Congress Resolves--and Reverses | |
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| Allen and Arnold, Again | |
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| Success and Failure | |
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| Target: Quebec | |
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| "Our Fatigues Seemed Daily to Increase" | |
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| The Attack | |
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| A Swarm of Misguided People | |
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| Flight from the North | |
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| Cowardice at the Cedars | |
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| "No One Thing Is Right" | |
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| Shock at Trois Rivieres | |
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| Escape from Valcour Island | |
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| The Battle for Boston | |
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| Woes of a City on a Hill | |
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| Life Under Occupation | |
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| Besieged | |
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| Work of the Boston Army | |
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| Garrison Life | |
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| A "Noble Train" of Artillery | |
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| To Annoy the Rebels | |
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| Might of the British Navy | |
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| Buying Off a Bombardment | |
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| Falmouth Flames | |
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| This Unhappy Town Relieved | |
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| Dorchester High Ground | |
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| The British Decamp | |
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| Common Sense and a Bold Declaration | |
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| A War of Documents | |
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| Plan of Union | |
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| An Olive Branch Offered--and Spurned | |
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| Indecision on Independence | |
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| Mr. Paine's Pamphlet and Its Progeny | |
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| A Man of Uncommon Sense | |
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| A Bestseller | |
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| The Great Debate | |
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| Authors of Independence | |
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| The Remarkable Mr. Jefferson | |
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| "An Expression of the American Mind" | |
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| Rough Draft: The Question of Slavery | |
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| "The Bells Rang All Day and Almost All Night" | |
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| Times That Try Men's Souls | |
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| The Battle for New York | |
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| The British Eye the Big Apple | |
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| Patriot Defenses | |
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| Staten Island Arrival | |
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| The Trap Is Set | |
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| The Battle of Long Island | |
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| Escape to Manhattan | |
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| Fight for New York | |
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| The British Attack--and Blink | |
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| One Life to Lose | |
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| New York in Flames | |
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| Retreat to White Plains | |
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| The Fort Washington Trap | |
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| Crossing the Delaware | |
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| Jersey Winter | |
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| Jealous Generals | |
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| The Reluctant Hunter | |
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| A Naked Army | |
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| Damnably Deficient | |
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| Providence Smiles at Trenton | |
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| Another Crossing | |
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| Merry Christmas | |
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| Triumph at Princeton | |
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| Withdrawal and Advance | |
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| Victory and the Spoils Not Taken | |
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| Stalemate | |
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| Gentleman Johnny | |
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| "Thoughts for Conducting the War" | |
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| Ticonderoga Tragedy | |
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| The Death of Jenny McCrea | |
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| Reversals of Fortune | |
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| Oriskany Rout | |
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| "To the Last Extremity" | |
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| The Indians Bow Out | |
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| The Hessians | |
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| Hired Guns | |
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| Farmers Triumphant at Bennington | |
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| Philadelphia Falls | |
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| The Lure of Philadelphia | |
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| On the Banks of the Brandywine | |
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| "Our Army Was Something Broke" | |
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| Massacre and Humiliation | |
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| Butchery at Paoli | |
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| The Loss of Philadelphia | |
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| Glorious Victory Shamefully Lost | |
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| The Germantown Disaster | |
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| Defeat or Victory? | |
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| Saratoga Saga | |
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| The Bravery of Benedict Arnold | |
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| Freeman's Farm | |
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| In a Huff | |
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| A Silver Bullet | |
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| The Battle of Bemis Heights | |
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| Gentlemen Johnny Packs It In | |
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| Winter of Discontent | |
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| Defeat and Disloyalty | |
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| Colonial Engineering: The Delaware Defenses | |
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| Two Glorious Days | |
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| Fort Mifflin Falls | |
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| The Americans Lose Forts, The British Lose Time | |
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| The Conway Cabal | |
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| Office Politics | |
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| Showdown | |
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| Gates Plays Dumb | |
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| The Commander Pulls It Together | |
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| Year's End, 1777 | |
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| Valley Forge | |
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| The French Connections | |
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| Vive la Figaro! | |
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| The Mission of Benjamin Franklin | |
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| The Good Marquis | |
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| Saratoga Dividend: Amity and Commerce | |
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| "What Is to Become of the Army?" | |
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| Foreign Aid | |
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| The Prussian Officer | |
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| Baron de Kalb | |
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| The Poles | |
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| Action in the Middle States | |
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| Fought to a Stand: Monmouth Court House | |
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| Yankee Doodle in Rhode Island | |
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| Mad Anthony Triumphs | |
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| "The Greatest Enterprise" | |
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| The Springfield Raid | |
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| British Peace Feelers | |
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| White War, Red Blood | |
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| Indian Alliances | |
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| Havoc in the Borderlands | |
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| Cherry Valley Massacre | |
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| Vengeance on All Sides | |
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| Trouble in the Old Northwest | |
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| Frontier Heroes and Villains | |
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| Dan'l Boone, Woodsman | |
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| The Depredations of Black Fish | |
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| Clark Presses His Campaign | |
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| Fighting on the Northern Frontier: Late Phase | |
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| Southern Exposure | |
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| The South: A Different War | |
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| Southern Loyalists | |
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| Virginia Rises | |
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| Highlanders at Moore's Creek Bridge | |
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| Charleston: First Pass | |
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| Savannah Falls | |
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| Target: Charleston | |
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| Defenses | |
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| Siege | |
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| Disaster | |
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| A Turncoat and the Mutineers | |
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| Woes of a Married Man | |
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| Ambitions Unrewarded | |
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| Social Climbers | |
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| Just Business | |
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| A "Plan of Such Infinite Effect" | |
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| The Unraveling | |
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| Arnold: "Bound to Retaliate" | |
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| Even Bigger Problems | |
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| Grievances of the Pennsylvania Line | |
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| And the Profiteers | |
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| "The World Turned Upside Down" | |
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| "I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight" | |
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| The Revolution at Sea | |
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| Rule, Britannia! | |
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| American Assets | |
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| A Maiden Battle and a Bahamian Cruise | |
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| The Massachusetts Navy Gets a Ship | |
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| The Nassau Campaign | |
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| The Exploits of John Paul Jones | |
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| Aboard the Ranger | |
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| Master of the Bonhomme Richard | |
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| France Gains the Upper Hand | |
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| Rodney's Moonlight Battle | |
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| French Successes | |
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| England Regains the Upper Hand--Too Late | |
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| Reign of the Privateers | |
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| Backcountry Battles | |
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| Seasons of Failure | |
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| Massacre at Waxhaws | |
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| Camden Disaster | |
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| King's Mountain and Cowpens | |
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| Exploits of the Swamp Fox | |
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| Tearcoat Swamp | |
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| Halfway Swamp | |
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| A Battle at Guilford Courthouse | |
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| Yorktown: "A Most Glorious Day" | |
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| Benedict Arnold as a Redcoat | |
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| Steuben and Lafayette in Virginia | |
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| Cornwallis Arrives | |
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| Chasing Lafayette | |
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| Ambush at Jamestown Ford | |
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| On to Yorktown | |
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| Washington and Rochambeau Talk | |
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| A Plan Is Made--and Scrapped | |
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| De Grasse at the Battle of the Capes | |
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| Yorktown Investment | |
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| Cornwallis Bagged | |
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| "The World Turned Upside Down" | |
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| The Meaning of Yorktown | |
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| Winning the Peace | |
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| Greene Wraps Up in the South | |
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| The Uneasy West | |
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| Parley in Paris | |
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| The French Squeeze | |
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| A New Declaration of Independence | |
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| "Never a Good War or a Bad Peace" | |
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| The Treaty of Paris Signed | |
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| Reception of the Treaty | |
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| A New Order of the Ages | |
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| The Fruits of Liberty | |
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| Government Under the Articles of Confederation | |
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| Northwest Ordinance | |
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| What About the Loyalists? | |
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| What About the Slaves? | |
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| Rope of Sand? | |
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| Shays's Rebellion | |
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| The Constitutional Convention | |
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| The Bill of Rights | |
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| Father of His Country | |
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| Washington as Leader | |
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| Washington as Example | |
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| A Revolution for the World | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Who Was Who in the American Revolution | |
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| Fighting Words | |
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| Battles, Battlefields, and Historic Sites | |
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| Revolutionary Reading | |
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| Index | |