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Biografie

New York : Library of America, c2001

xviii, 878 s.

ISBN 1-883011-91-4 (váz.)

The Library of America ; 123

Obsahuje chronologii, bibliografické poznámka, rejstřík

Spojené státy americké - revoluce - r. 1775-1783 - texty

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Paul Revere: Memorandum on Events of April 18,1775 The War Begins: Massachusetts, April 177$ 1 // Frederick MacKenzie: Diary, April 18-21,1775 The British Retreat from Concord: Massachusetts, April 177$ ...5 // Thomas Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth, April 22,1775 “Tire from every Hill, Fence, House, Barn”: Massachusetts, April 177$ ...19 // John Dickinson to Arthur Lee, April 29,1775 A Pennsylvanian Reacts to Lexington and Concord: April 177S ...21 // Peter Oliver: from “The Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion” // A Tory View of Lexington and Concord: Spring 177s ...25 // George Washington: Address to the Continental Congress, June 16,1775 Washington Accepts Command: Philadelphia, June 177s 31 // John Adams to Abigail Adams, June 17,1775 Washington’s Appointment: June I77S ...32 // Eliphalct Dyer to Joseph Trumbull, June 17,1775 An Appraisal of Washington: June 177s ...34 // Samuel Blachley Webb to Joseph Webb, June 19,1775 Battle of Bunker Hill: Massachusetts, June 177$ ...36 // George Washington to Burwell Bassett, June 19,1775 “Imbarkd on a tempestuous Ocean”: June 177s ...41 // John Adams to Abigail Adams, June 23,1775 Washingtofi Leaves for Boston: June I77S ...43 // Peter Oliver: from “The Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion” // A Tory View of’Bunker Hill: Summer 177s ...44 // IX // x // CONTENTS // Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, July 5,1775 // “You are now my Enemy”: July 177$ ...53 // The Continental Congress: Address to the Six Nations, July 13,1775 // An Appeal to the Iroquois: July 177s ...54 // Abigail Adams to John Adams, July 16,1775 A Visit with Washington: July 1775 ...61 // Lord Rawdon to the Earl of Huntingdon, August 3, 1775 A British Account of Bunker Hill: August 177$ ...67 // Ethan Allen: from “A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen’s captivity” // An American Defeat in Canada: September 177s ...71 //

To the Virginia Gazette, November 24,1775 Response to Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation: November 1775 ...81 // William Woodford to Edmund Pendleton, December 5,1775 // Slaves Fighting with the British: Virginia, December 177s ...87 // Martha Washington to Elizabeth Ramsay, December 30,1775 // The Continental Army Outside Boston: December I77S ...91 // Isaac Scntcr: Journal, November i-December 31,1775 The Invasion of Canada: 177s ...93 // Sarah Hodgkins and Joseph Hodgkins, February 1-20,1776 A Continental Officer and his Wife Correspond: February 1776 ...109 // John Bowater to the Earl of Denbigh, March 25, 1776 // The British Evacuate Boston: March 1776 ...113 // Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31,1776 // “Remember the Ladies”: March 1776 116 // Peter Oliver: from “The Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion” // A Tory View of the Siege of Boston: Fall i77S-Spring 1776 ...119 // CONTENTS // XI // John Adams ?? Abigail Adams, July 3,1776 // Congress Votes for Independence: July 1776 ...124 // The Declaration of Independence Philadelphia, July 4,1776 ...128 // Isaac Bangs: Journal, July 10, 1776 New York Celebrates Independence: July 1776 ...132 // Landon Carter: Diary, June 26-July 16,1776 Slaves Join the British: Virginia, Summer 1776 ...133 // Ambrose Serie: Journal, July 12-23,1776 // The British Fleet Arrives at New York: July 1776 ...142 // Joseph Reed: Memorandum on Meeting Between // George Washington and James Paterson, July 20, 1776 // Washington Refuses to Negotiate: New York, July 1776 ...152 // Benjamin Franklin to Lord Howe, July 20,1776 “It is impossible we should think of Submission”: July 1776 ...156 // Henry Laurens to John Laurens, August 14,1776 Events in South Caroima: Summer 1776 ...159 // Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal, August 11-30,1776 The Commentai Army at New York: August 1776 ...171 //

Jabez Fitch: Diary, August 27-28,1776 Battle of Long Island: August 1776 ...183 // Henry Strachcy: Memorandum on Meeting Between Lord Howe and the American Commissioners, September 11,1776 // A British Peace Plan Fails: September 1776 ...186 // Ambrose Serie: Journal, August 22-Septembcr 15,1776 British Victories at New York: Summer 1776 ...192 // Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal, September 15,1776 Battle of Kips Bay: New York, September 1776 ...219 // Benjamin Trumbull: Journal, September 15-16, 1776 Kips Bay and Harlem Heights: New York, September 1776 ...222 // Frederick MacKenzie: Diary, September 20-22,1776 The Burning of New York: September 1776 ...225 // Robert Auchmuty to the Earl of Huntingdon, January 8,1777 // Capture of Fort Washington: New York, November 1776 ...230 // George Washington to Lund Washington, December 10 and 17,1776 // The American Retreat: Pennsylvania, December 1776 ...234 // Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776 // Philadelphia, December 1776 ...238 // Thomas Rodney: Diary, December 18-25,1776 // Defending Philadelphia: Pennsylvania, December 1776 ...247 // George Washington to John Hancock, December 27,1776 Battle of Trenton: New Jersey, December 1776 ...254 // Thomas Rodney: Diary, January 2-4,1777 // Battle of Princeton: New Jersey, January 1777 ...257 // Nicholas Crcsswcll: Journal, January 5-17,1777 News of Tremoti: Virginia, January 1777 ...264 // Jabez Fitch: Narrative American Prisoners in New York: August 1776-January 1777 ...266 // John Peebles: Diary, February 13-24,1777 Skirmishing in New Jersey: February 1777 ...295 // Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 8, 1777 Hardship in Massachusetts: March 1777 ...301 // John Burgoyne: Proclamation, June 23,1777 // “The Vengeance of the State”: New York, June 1777 ...303 //

William Digby: Journal, July 24-Octobcr 13,1777 The Saratoga Campaign: New York, July-October 1777 ...306 // John André: Journal, August 31-October 4,1777 The Fall of Philadelphia: Pennsylvania, August-October 1777 ...334 // John Glover to Jonathan Glover and Azor Orne, September 21 and 29,1777 // Battle of Freeman’s Farm: New York, September 1777 ...348 // John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 30,1777 Congress Flees Philadelphia: September 1777 ...351 // Samuel Shaw to Francis Shaw, September 30, October 3, 13, and 15,1777 // Battle of Germantown: Pennsylvania, October 1777 ...353 // Robert Morton: Diary, September 16-Dccember 14, 1777 Occupation of Philadelphia: September-December 1777 ...359 // Sarah Wistcr: Journal, October 19-Decembcr 12,1777 The Continental Army at Whitemarsh: Pennsylvania, October-December 1777 ...383 // George Washington: General Orders, December 17,1777 The Army Seeks Whiter Quarters: Pennsylvania, December 1777 398 // Albigcncc Waldo: Diary, December 11-29, >777 The Army Moves to Valley Forge: Pennsylvania, December 1777 ...400 // John Laurens to Henry Laurens, January 14 and February 2,1778 // A Proposal to Free and Arm Slaves: January-February 1778 ...410 // John Laurens to Henry Laurens, May 7,1778 News of the French Alliance: Valley Forge, May 1778 ...414 // Ambrose Serie: Journal, March 9-June 19,1778 // Tlje British Abandon Philadelphia: March-June 1778 ...416 // The Continental Congress: Response to British Peace Proposals, June 13-17,1778 // York, Pennsylvania, June 1778 ...444 // Henry Laurens to Horatio Gates, June 17, 1778 // “The Door is shut”: June 1778 ...450 // John Andre: Journal, June 16-July 5,1778 The British Retreat to New York: New Jersey, June-July 1778 ...452 // James McHenry: Journal, June 18-July 23,1778 // The American Advance: New Jersey, June-July 1778 ...459 //

John Laurens to Henry Laurens, June 30 and July 2, 1778 Battle of Monmouth: New Jersey, June 1778 ...470 // J. Hector St. John Crčvecoeur: Narrative of the Wyoming Massacre // Frontier Warfare: Pennsylvania, July 1778 ...476 // Peter Oliver: from “The Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion” // A Tory View of Frontier Warfare: Summer 1778 ...487 // George Washington to Henry Laurens, November 14,1778 Opposing a proposal to invade Canada: November 1778 ...490 // George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, December 18,1778 // The Weakness of Congress: December 1778 ...493 // Stephen De Lancey to Cornelia Barclay Dc Lanccy, January 14,1779 // The Fall of Savannah: Georgia, January 1779 ...498 // George Rogers Clark: Narrative of the March to Vincennes Capture of Vincennes: Illinois Country, February 1779 ...502 // Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, March 14,1779 aTogive them their freedom with their muskets”: March 1779 ...523 // George Washington to Henry Laurens, March 20, 1779 // Arming Slaves “a moot point”: March 1779 ...526 // Samuel Shaw to Francis and Sarah Shaw, June 28, 1779 Depreciation of Commentai Currency: New York, June 1779 ...528 // “A Whig”: To the Public, July 30,1779 // Banishing Tories: Philadelphia, July 1779 530 // William Barton: Journal, August 27-Septcmber 14, 1779 War Agaiiist the Iroquois: New York, August-September 1779 ...534 // John Paul Jones to Benjamin Franklin, October 3,1779 // Battle in the North Sea: October 1779 ...543 // William Moultrie: Journal, April 2-May 12,1780 The Siejfe of Charleston: South Carolina, April-May 1780 ...559 // The Sentiments of a Lady in New-Jcrsey, July 12,1780 Aiding the Continental Army: July 1780 ...575 // Otho Holland Williams: Narrative of the Battle of Camden // An American Kout: South Carolina, August 1780 ...578 //

Royal Gazette: “Strayed ...a whole Army,” September 16,1780 // A Loyalist Satire: New York, September 1780 ...$90 // Benedict Arnold: To the Inhabitants of America, October 7,1780 // Arnold Justifies His Actions: New York, October 1780 ...592 // Benedict Arnold to Lord Germain, October 7, 1780 A Report on the Continental Army: New York, October 1780 596 // Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, c. October 11,1780 Arnold and Major Andre: New York, September-October 1780 ...600 // Robert Campbell: Narrative of the Battle of King’s Mountain // South Caroima, October 1780 ...610 // George Washington: Circular to the State Governments, October 18,1780 // An Appeal for New Troops: October 1780 ...615 // Anthony Allaire: Diary, October 7-Novcmber 25,1780 A Loyalist Prisoner: South Carolina, October-November 1780 ...622 // Enos Reeves: Lctterbook Extracts, January 2-17,1781 Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line: New Jersey, January 1781 ...630 // Oliver Dc Lancey: Journal, January 3-21,1781 British Attempts to Exploit the Mutiny: New Jersey, January 1781 638 // George Washington to Philip Schuyler, January io, 1781 // “The event, which I have long dreaded”: January 1781 ...647 // Nathanael Greene to Alexander Hamilton, January 10,1781 // The Plight of the Southern Army: South Carolina, January 1781 ...649 // Nathanael Greene to Catherine Greene, January 12,1781 “The distress and misery that prevails”: South Carolina, January 1781 ...654 // Thomas Jefferson: Narrative of Arnold’s Raid, January 13,1781 // The British Attack Richmond: Virginia, January 1781 ...656 // Daniel Morgan to Nathanael Greene, January 19,1781 // Battle of Cowpens: South Carolina, January 1781 ...659 // George Washington to Robert Howe, January 22,1781 // Mutmy of the New Jersey Line: New Jersey, January 1781 ..663 // Royal Gazette: “Our Last Will and Testament,” January 31,1781 //

A Loyalist Satire of Congress: New York, January 1781 ...664 // Nathanael Greene to George Washington, February 9> 1781 // Cornwallis Invades North Carolina: February 1781 ...667 // Nathanael Greene to Joseph Reed, March 18, 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse: North Carolina, March 1781 ...670 // Nathanael Greene to George Washington, March 18,1781 // Prospects for Defeating Cornwallis: March 1781 ...674 // Nathanael Greene to Thomas Jefferson, April 28,1781 // An Appeal for Support from Virginia: April 1781 ...676 // Ebenezer Denny: Journal, May 1-15,1781 The Pennsylvania Line Marches South: May 1781 ...679 // Thomas Brown to David Ramsay, December 25,1786 // The War in Georgia: November 1778-June 1781 ...681 // Josiah Atkins: Diary, June 5-July 7,1781 // The Campaign in Virginia: June-July 1781 ...689 // Ebenezer Denny: Journal, June 18-July 7,1781 // Skirmishing in Virginia: June-July 1781 ...699 // James Robertson to William Knox, July 12,1781 The British Consider Occupying Yorktown: July 1781 ...702 // Otho Holland Williams: Narrative of the Battle of Eutaw .Springs // South Carolina, September 1781 ...707 // Ebenezer Denny: Journal, September i-November 1,1781 Tl)e Yorktown Campaign: Virginia, Septembej’-November 1781 ...721 // St. George Tucker: Journal, September 28-October 20,1781 Siege of Yorktown: Virginia, September-October 1781 ...727 // James Robertson to Lord Amherst, October 17,1781 The British Relief Expedition Sets Sail: New York, October 1781 ...742 // Lord Cornwallis to Henry Clinton, October 20,1781 // Cornwallis Surrenders: Virginia, October 1781 744 // Anna Rawle: Diary, October 25, 1781 // Victory Celebrations i?i Philadelphia: October 1781 ...750 // Robert Gray: Observations on the War in Carolina Partisan Warfare in the South: May 1780-February 1782 ...752 // William Feilding to the Earl of Denbigh, August 10, 1782 //

New York loyalists Fear Peace: August 1782 ...769 // Ebenezer Denny: Journal, January 4-Deccmber 13,1781 The War Ends in South Carolina: January-December 1782 771 // John Armstrong: The Newburgh Address, c. March 10,1783 // An Officer Urges Disobedience to Congress: New York, March 1783 774 // George Washington to Joseph Jones, March 12,1783 Political Intrigue and the Army: New York, March 1783 ...778 // George Washington: Speech to the Officers, March 15,1783 // “The flood Gates of Civil discord”: Nerv Torky March 1783 781 // Samuel Shaw to the Rev. Eliot, c. April 1783 // Washington at Newburgh: Nerv York, April 1783 ...786 // A New York Loyalist to Lord Hardwicke, c. Summer 1783 // Loyalist Emigration: New York, Summer ...790 // George Washington and Thomas Mifflin: Speeches in the Continental Congress, December 23,1783 Washington Resigns His Commission: Annapolis, December 1783 ...793 // James McHenry to Margaret Caldwell, December 23,1783 “The revolution just accomplished”: Annapolis, December 1783 ...796 // Chronology ...801 // Biographical Notes ...813 // Note on the Texts ...830 // Notes ...842 // Bidex ...859