Redcoats and Rebels The American Revolution Through British Eyes

by Hibbert, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780393322934
• ISBN10: 0393322939
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent'”a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts, Redcoats and Rebels presents a vivid and convincing picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever. 16 pages of illustrations. "Hibbert combines impeccable scholarship with a liveliness of style that lures the reader from page to page."'”Sunday Telegraph

Table of Contents

Table of Principal Events	vii
Author's Note and Acknowledgements	xi
Prologue	xvii
Part One
Sons of Liberty	3	(14)
First Blood	17	(25)
Bunker Hill	42	(22)
Washington Takes Command	64	(12)
`An Ugly Job'	76	(12)
The War in Canada	88	(13)
Disasters in Virginia	101	(12)
Part Two
The Declaration of Independence	113	(6)
The Battle for New York	119	(14)
Generals at Loggerheads	133	(10)
Winter on the Delaware	143	(10)
The Fall of Philadelphia	153	(9)
The Army of the North	162	(20)
Surrender at Saratoga	182	(19)
The English Debate	201	(11)
Intrigues at Valley Forge	212	(8)
Fighting at Monmouth Court House	220	(7)
Enemies of the French	227	(12)
Part Three
Marching through Georgia	239	(9)
Quarrels in New York	248	(8)
Butchers and Patriots	256	(14)
Slaughter on King's Mountain	270	(20)
The Traitor and the Spy	290	(8)
With Cornwallis in the Carolinas	298	(16)
The Road to Yorktown	314	(19)
Epilogue	333	(6)
The Fate of Characters Whose End Is Not Recorded in the Text	339	(8)
Bibliography	347	(12)
Illustration Credits	359	(2)
Index	361