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| List of Maps | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Nuts and Bolts of War | |
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| "A Choaky Mouthful": The American Soldier | |
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| The Militia | |
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| The Continentals | |
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| Lobsterbacks: The British Soldier | |
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| Britain's German Auxiliaries | |
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| Loyalists | |
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| "Men of Character": The Officer Class | |
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| What Made Men Fight | |
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| Feeding the Beast | |
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| The Things They Carried: Weapons, Equipment, and Clothing | |
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| The Big Guns: Artillery | |
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| The Sanguinary Business: Wounds, Disease, and Medical Care | |
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| "Trulls and Doxies": Women in the Armies | |
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| Cuff and Salem, Dick and Jehu: Blacks in the War | |
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| "The Proper Subjects of Our Resentment": Indians | |
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| The Great Battles | |
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| The War in the North | |
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| Ambush: Lexington and Concord, 19 April 1775 | |
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| "A Complication of Horror...": Bunker's Hill, 17 June 1775 | |
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| A Vaunting Ambition: Quebec, 31 December 1775 | |
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| "We Expect Bloody Work": Brooklyn, 22-29 August 1776 | |
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| Fire and Ice: Trenton I, 25-26 December 1776; Trenton II, 30 December 1776; and Princeton, 3 January 1777 | |
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| The Philadelphia Campaign: Brandywine, 11 September 1777; Germantown, 4 October 1777; and Monmouth Courthouse, 28 June 1778 | |
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| The Saratoga Campaign: Freeman's Farm, 19 September 1777; and Bemis Heights, 7 October 1777 | |
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| The War in the South | |
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| The Laurels of Victory, the Willows of Defeat: Camden, 16 August 1780 | |
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| The Hunters Hunted: Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780; and Cowpens, 17 January 1781 | |
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| "Long, Obstinate, and Bloody": Guilford Courthouse, 15 March 1781 | |
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| "Handsomely in a Pudding Bag": The Chesapeake Capes, 5-13 September 1781; and Yorktown, 28 September-19 October 1781 | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |