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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 | |