Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence (34 page)

13. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
515.

14. Billias,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents,
282.

15. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1657.

16. Christopher Duffy,
The Military Experience in the Age of Reason
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), 209.

17. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1658.

18. Ibid., 1662.

19. Ibid., 1666.

20. Richard M. Ketchum,
Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution
(New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 168.

21. Ibid., 186.

22. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1673.

23. Ibid., 1687.

24. Ketchum,
Victory at Yorktown,
209.

25. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
531.

26. William H. Hallahan,
The Day the Revolution Ended: 19 October 1781
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004), 180.

27. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1701.

28. North Callahan,
Henry Knox, General Washington’s General
(New York: Rinehart, 1958), 189.

29. Ibid., 187–88.

30. Ibid., 185.

31. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1704.

32. James Thacher,
Military Journal, During the American Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783
(Hartford, CT: Silas Andrus & Son, 1854), 343.

33. Smith,
A New Age Now Begins,
1705.

34. Ketchum,
Victory at Yorktown,
242.

35. Ibid., 252.

36. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
538.

37. Ketchum,
Victory at Yorktown,
254.

38. Edward G. Lengel,
General George Washington: A Military Life
(New York: Random House, 2005), 343.

39. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
539.

40. Callahan,
Henry Knox,
190.

41. Ibid., 189.

Chapter 19:
Our
Troops, 1782

1. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 548.

2. Paul David Nelson,
Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 167.

3. Jerome A. Greene,
The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781
(New York: Savas Beatie, 2005), 305–6.

4. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
541.

5. Richard M. Ketchum,
Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution
(New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 274.

6. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
547.

7. Charles Royster,
A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 351, 358.

8. Ibid., 350.

9. Ibid., 343.

10. Joseph Plumb Martin,
Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
(Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006), 105.

11. Royster,
A Revolutionary People at War,
332.

12. Edward G. Lengel,
General George Washington: A Military Life
(New York: Random House, 2005), 349.

13. George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, eds.,
Rebels and Redcoats
(Cleveland: World Pub., 1957), 502.

14. Martin,
Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier,
159.

15. Scheer,
Rebels and Redcoats,
502.

16. Martin,
Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier,
160.

17. Mark Puls,
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 237.

18. Ketchum,
Victory at Yorktown,
288.

19. Scheer,
Rebels and Redcoats,
504.

Chapter 20: The Large Hearts of Heroes, 1824

1. Stanley J. Idzerda,
Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds: The Art and Pageantry of His Farewell Tour of America, 1824–1825
(Flushing, NY: Queens Museum, 1989), 3.

2. David A. Clary,
Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution
(New York: Bantam Books, 2007), 444.

3. George Athan Billias, ed.,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 239.

4. Mark Puls,
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 204.

5. Nancy Rubin Stuart,
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-era Women and the Radical Men They Married
(Boston: Beacon Press, 2013), 197.

6. Clary,
Adopted Son,
449.

7. Billias,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents,
313.

8. Puls,
Henry Knox,
192–93.

9. Billias,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents,
286.

10. Willard Sterne Randall,
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor
(New York: Morrow, 1990), 613.

11. Gerard H. Clarfield,
Timothy Pickering and the American Republic
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), 80.

12. Auguste Levasseur,
Lafayette in America, in 1824 and 1825: Journal of a Voyage to the United States
(Manchester, NH: Lafayette Press, 2006), 250–51.

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