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9780670887040

Dark Eagle : A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780670887040

  • ISBN10:

    0670887048

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Viking Adult
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Summary

The Indians called him "Dark Eagle" out of respect for both his military genius and his ruthlessness. His men worshipped him as a hero. But as the legendary general of the Continental Army neared the pinnacle of success, things began to go wrong, drawing Arnold inexorably toward the greatest crime of the age, one that would forever make his name synonymous with the word "traitor". Meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered, Dark Eagle illuminates both sides of the Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1780. Harr traces Arnold's spectacular rise, culminating in his victory at Saratoga and his marriage to Peggy Shippen, the beautiful loyalist daughter of a prominent Philadelphia family, and Arnold's decline, culminating in his plan with Major John Andre and Peggy to betray Washington and deliver West Point to the British.

Author Biography

John Ensor Harr is a writer, historian, and consultant in the management and communication fields. He is the author of two books on the Rockefeller family. He is married has five children, and lives in Forked River, New Jersey. Dark Eagle is his first novel.

Table of Contents

Cast of Characters xv
Author's Note on Sources xvii
Prologue: Letters to the Author from Eyewitnesses 1(7)
I: Independency 8(47)
St. Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada, June 18, 1776
8(10)
From the Narrative of Richard Varick
17(1)
Albany to Crown Point, June 25-July 8, 1776
18(7)
Fort Amherst, Crown Point, New York, July 8, 1776
25(10)
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, June-July, 1776
35(11)
Philadelphia, July 8, 1776
46(9)
II: Valcour Bay 55(35)
From the Narrative of Richard Varick
55(1)
Skenesboro, New York, September 16, 1776
56(10)
From the Narrative of Sir Thomas Stanley, KB
65(1)
Valcour Bay, Lake Champlain, October 11, 1776
66(10)
Valcour Bay, October 11, 1776
76(6)
Military Hospital, Montreal, October 30, 1776
82(8)
III: The Winter of 1776 90(57)
Eastern Pennsylvania, December 11, 1776
90(12)
Philadelphia, December 11-13, 1776
102(16)
From the Narrative of Richard Varick
117(1)
New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, Mid-December 1776
118(9)
Neshaminy, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1776
127(11)
New Haven, Connecticut, December 25, 1776
138(9)
IV: The Grand Strategy 147(43)
From the Narrative of Sir Thomas Stanley, KB
147(1)
London, January 27, 1777
148(5)
London, January-February, 1777
153(9)
Boston, March, 1777
162(12)
Morristown, New Jersey, March 30, 1777
174(8)
Morristown, March 30, 1777
182(8)
V: Ridgefield 190(28)
New Haven, April 25, 1777
190(9)
Western Connecticut, April 26-28, 1777
199(12)
Morristown, May 13, 1777
211(7)
VI: The Road to Saratoga 218(51)
From the Narrative of Sir Thomas Stanley, KB
218(1)
Montreal and St. Jean, Canada, June 4-16, 1777
219(8)
Philadelphia, July 4, 1777
227(9)
Fort Ticonderoga, July 7, 1777
236(8)
Morristown, New Jersey, July 16, 1777
244(6)
New York Bay, July 21, 1777
250(6)
From the Narrative of Richard Varick
255(1)
German Flats and Fort Stanwix, August 16-26, 1777
256(13)
VII: ``The Very Genius of War'' 269(59)
With Burgoyne's Army, September, 1777
269(5)
Gates's Headquarters Camp, September, 1777
274(8)
Freeman's Farm, September 19, 1777
282(13)
Philadelphia, September 26, 1777
295(5)
Philadelphia, September 26, 1777
300(9)
Bemis Heights, September 20-October 6, 1777
309(9)
Bemis Heights, October 7, 1777
318(8)
Military Hospital, Albany, October 14, 1777
326(2)
VIII: The Decadent Season 328(75)
Philadelphia, December 9, 1777
328(9)
Military Hospital, Albany, Winter, 1777-1778
337(9)
Valley Forge, Winter, 1777-1778
346(10)
Philadelphia, Winter and Spring, 1778
356(13)
Valley Forge, Spring, 1778
369(11)
Philadelphia, May 18, 1778
380(12)
Philadelphia, June, 1778
392(11)
IX: ``One Shining Stroke'' 403(47)
From the Narrative of David Franks
403(1)
Philadelphia, July, 1778
404(8)
Philadelphia, Summer and Fall, 1778
412(10)
From the Narrative of David Franks
421(1)
Middlebrook and Philadelphia, February-April, 1779
422(6)
Philadelphia and New York, April-May, 1779
428(8)
New York, May, 1779
436(7)
Philadelphia and Morristown, Winter, 1779-1780
443(7)
X: West Point 450(68)
New Jersey and New York, Summer, 1780
450(9)
From the Narrative of Richard Varick
458(1)
Robinson House, August-September, 1780
459(8)
The Hudson River Valley, September 17-22, 1780
467(8)
Harverstraw Bay, New York, September 22-23, 1780
475(8)
Westchester County, September 23-24, 1780
483(12)
Robinson House, September 25, 1780
495(7)
The Hudson River Valley, September 25-30, 1780
502(8)
Tappan and New York City, September 30-October 2, 1780
510(8)
Epilogue: Letters to the Author from Eyewitnesses 518

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