27. Lengel,
General George Washington,
300.
28. Lockhart,
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge,
125.
29. Joseph Plumb Martin,
Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
(Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006), 72.
30. Mark Puls,
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 130.
31. Nelson,
Anthony Wayne,
82.
32. Ward,
The War of the Revolution,
549.
Chapter 14: The Boldest Conduct, 1779
1. William R. Nester,
George Rogers Clark: “I Glory in War”
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), 75.
2. August William Derleth,
Vincennes: Portal to the West
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968), 56.
3. Nester,
George Rogers Clark,
120.
4. Ibid., 138.
5. Derleth,
Vincennes,
57.
6. Ibid., 68.
7. Nester,
George Rogers Clark,
3.
8. Ibid., 313.
9. Barbara Graymont,
The Iroquois in the American Revolution
(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1972), 190.
10. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 353.
11. Ibid., 346.
12. Charles Park Whittemore,
A General of the Revolution, John Sullivan of New Hampshire
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), 110.
13. Ibid., 115.
14. Ibid., 123.
15. Ibid., 125.
16. Ibid., 127.
17. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
357.
18. Glenn Tucker,
Mad Anthony Wayne and the New Nation: The Story of Washington’s Front-Line General
(Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1973), 162.
19. Graymont,
The Iroquois in the American Revolution,
213.
20. Ibid., 218.
21. Whittemore,
A General of the Revolution,
147.
22. Joseph R. Fischer,
A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign Against the Iroquois, July-September 1779
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997), 192.
23. Whittemore,
A General of the Revolution,
148.
24. Bruce Chadwick,
George Washington’s War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency
(Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2005), 328.
Chapter 15: Fate of Battle, 1780
1. George Athan Billias, ed.,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 196, 200, 206.
2. Ibid., 206.
3. David B. Mattern,
Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 13.
4. Billias,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents,
198.
5. Mattern,
Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution,
95.
6. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 426.
7. Billias,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents,
203.
8. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
427.
9. Ibid., 436.
10. John Buchanan,
The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
(New York: Wiley, 1997), 85.
11. Christopher Ward,
The War of the Revolution
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 717.
12. George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, eds.,
Rebels and Redcoats
(Cleveland: World Pub., 1957), 404.
13. Charles Bracelen Flood,
Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times along the Road to Independence
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976), 288.
14. Ibid., 308.
15. Ibid., 315.
16. Billias,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents,
102.
17. Ward,
The War of the Revolution,
728.
18. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
441.
19. Dan L. Morrill,
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution
(Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1993), 93.
20. Flood,
Rise, and Fight Again,
328.
21. Ibid., 330.
22. Ibid., 337.
23. Ron Chernow,
Washington: A Life
(New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 375.
24. Paul David Nelson,
General Horatio Gates: A Biography
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 253.
25. Ibid., 239.
26. Flood,
Rise, and Fight Again,
345.
27. Chernow,
Washington,
352–53.
28. Ibid., 368–70.
29. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
444–45.
30. Chernow,
Washington,
378.
31. Ibid., 382.
32. Ibid., 382.
33. David A. Clary,
Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution
(New York: Bantam Books, 2007), 280.
34. Willard Sterne Randall,
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor
(New York: Morrow, 1990), 457.
35. Ibid., 445.
36. Ibid., 572.
37. Carl Van Doren,
Mutiny in January: The Story of a Crisis in the Continental Army Now for the First Time Fully Told from Many Hitherto Unknown or Neglected Sources, Both American and British
(New York: Viking Press, 1943), 13.
38. Chernow,
Washington,
370.
39. Page Smith,
A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 1603.
40. Chernow,
Washington,
389.
41. Van Doren,
Mutiny in January,
216.
42. Mark Puls,
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 159.
43. Howard H. Peckham,
The War for Independence: A Military History
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 158.
Chapter 16: Downright Fighting, 1780
1. Henry Lee,
Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States
(New York: University Publishing, 1870), 233.
2. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 458.
3. Robert Middlekauff,
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 461.
4. Dan L. Morrill,
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution
(Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1993), 105.
5. Hank Messick,
King’s Mountain: The Epic of the Blue Ridge “Mountain Men” in the American Revolution
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 112.
6. Page Smith,
A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 1427.
7. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
462.
8. Messick,
King’s Mountain,
134.
9. Ibid., 136.
10. Ibid., 136, 140.
11. Morrill,
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution,
110.
12. Messick,
King’s Mountain,
167.
13. Morrill,
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution,
111.
14. Messick,
King’s Mountain,
167.
15. Ron Chernow,
Washington: A Life
(New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 376.
16. Don Higginbotham,
Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 120.
17. Morrill,
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution,
124.
18. Richard M. Ketchum,
Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution
(New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 112–13.
19. Higginbotham,
Daniel Morgan,
132.
20. Lawrence Edward Babits,
A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 55.
21. Ibid., 58.
22. Ibid., 80.
23. Ibid., 82.
24. Ibid., 89.
25. Higginbotham,
Daniel Morgan,
137.
26. Babits,
A Devil of a Whipping,
102.
27. Ibid., 100.
28. Ibid., 123.
29. Higginbotham,
Daniel Morgan,
141.
30. Ibid., 132.
31. Babits,
A Devil of a Whipping,
10.
32. Higginbotham,
Daniel Morgan,
143.
33. Ibid., 153, 155.
Chapter 17: War Is an Intricate Business, 1781
1. Terry Golway,
Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
(New York: H. Holt, 2005), 127.
2. Ibid., 181.
3. Ibid., 227.
4. Nathanael Greene,
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976), 3:62.
5. Golway,
Washington’s General,
232, 239.
6. Henry Lee,
Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States
(New York: University Publishing, 1870), 39.
7. Golway,
Washington’s General,
96.
8. Ibid., 239.
9. Lawrence Edward Babits,
Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 16.
10. Golway,
Washington’s General,
252, 254.
11. Ibid., 244.
12. Charles Royster,
Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution
(New York: Knopf, 1981), 14.
13. Ibid., 42.
14. Ibid., 25.
15. Babits,
Long, Obstinate, and Bloody,
39.
16. Dan L. Morrill,
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution
(Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1993), 161.
17. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 496.
18. Babits,
Long, Obstinate, and Bloody,
77.
19. Matthew H. Spring,
With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), 226.
20. Christopher Ward,
The War of the Revolution
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 788.
21. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
497.
22. Ibid., 499.
23. Greene,
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene,
7:446.
24. Greene,
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene,
8:25.
25. Golway,
Washington’s General,
261.
26. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
517.
27. Golway,
Washington’s General,
269.
28. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
519.
29. Golway,
Washington’s General,
261.
30. Ibid., 264.
31. Greene,
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene,
8:443.
32. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
518.
33. Golway,
Washington’s General,
286.
34. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
519.
35. Golway,
Washington’s General,
284.
Chapter 18: America Is Ours, 1781
1. Page Smith,
A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 1626.
2. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 512.
3. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1654.
4. George Athan Billias, ed.,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 229.
5. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
511.
6. Billias,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents,
219.
7. Ibid., 219.
8. Ibid., 230.
9. Paul David Nelson,
Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 130.
10. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1633.
11. James Graham, T
he Life of General Daniel Morgan, of the Virginia Line of the Army of the United States, with Portions of His Correspondence; Comp. from Authentic Sources
(New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856), 395.
12. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1635.
