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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Of Lexington and Concord, and the Myths if the War, 1763—1775 | |
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| Lexington and Concord | |
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| Of Standing Armies (Power) and Militia (Liberty) | |
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| Ideological Transmission | |
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| The Provincial Militia Tradition | |
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| The Tyranny of Standing Armies | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Republican War, 1775—1776 | |
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| A Republican Order as the Goal | |
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| Regulars Versus Republicans: The British at Bay | |
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| The Adoption of a Continental Army | |
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| The British Military Counterthrust | |
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| The new York Campaign | |
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| Success and Failure | |
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| Notes | |
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| Toward an American Standing Army, 1776—1777 | |
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| The Nature of the Continental Army | |
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| A New Model Army | |
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| William Howe’s Campaign of 1777 | |
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| The Saratoga Campaign | |
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| The American Search for Manpower | |
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| The Old Myth and The New Soldiery | |
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| Notes | |
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| On and Off the Road Despair, 1777—1779 | |
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| Valley Forge | |
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| Mounting Anger in the Officer Corps | |
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| Tables Turned: new Life for the Cause | |
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| The British Dispersal of 1778 | |
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| Growing Internal Division: Army and Society | |
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| Notes | |
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| Moral Defeat and Military Turnabout, 1779—1781 | |
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| Dispersed Warfare | |
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| Patriot Naval Exploits | |
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| Financial Morass on the Home Front | |
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| The War in the Southern States | |
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| Treason, Pensions, and Mutinies | |
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| Sudden Turnabout: The Road to Yorktown | |
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| Notes | |
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| Of War, National Legitimacy, and the Republican Order, 1781—1789 | |
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| The Yorktown Campaign | |
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| Formulating a Peace Settlement | |
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| The Newburgh Conspiracy | |
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| Transition to a Postwar World | |
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| Myth and Tradition: A Political/Military Settlement | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Note on Revolutionary War History and Historiography | |
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| Index | |
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| Maps | |
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| Northern Campaigns | |
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| Southern Campaigns | |
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| Clark’s Western Campaigns, 1778—1779 | |