Those Damned Rebels The American Revolution As Seen Through British Eyes

by Pearson, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780306809835
• ISBN10: 0306809834
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-07
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Using firsthand accountsjournals, letters from British officers in the field, reports from colonial governors in the coloniesMichael Pearson has provided a contemporary report of the Revolution as the British witnessed it. Seen from this perspective, some of the major events of the war are given startling interpretations: For example, the British considered their defeat at Bunker Hill nothing more than a minor setback, especially in light of their capture of New York and Philadelphia. Only at the very end of the conflict did they realize that the Yankees had lost the battles but won the war. From the Boston Tea Party to that day in 1785 when the first U.S. ambassador presented his credentials to a grudging George III, here is the full account of "those damned rebels" who somehow managed to found a new nation.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(13)
London, January 13, 1774	13	(17)
Boston, May 17, 1774	30	(18)
London, October 3, 1774	48	(11)
Boston, April 19, 1775	59	(48)
London, June 1, 1775	107	(10)
Quebec, September 7, 1775	117	(25)
Boston, January 3, 1776	142	(8)
At Sea, the Northwest Atlantic, April 12, 1776	150	(4)
New York Harbor, July 12, 1776	154	(31)
Lake Champlain, October 11, 1776	185	(12)
New York, October 12, 1776	197	(25)
Versailles, January 28, 1777	222	(13)
Lake Champlain, June 30, 1777	235	(15)
Off Cape Henry, Virginia, August 12, 1777	250	(12)
Upper Hudson River, August 20, 1777	262	(30)
London, September 3, 1777	292	(9)
Allentown, New Jersey, June 25, 1778	301	(21)
Before Charleston, April 13, 1780	322	(22)
Off Teller's Point, Hudson River, September 22, 1780	344	(14)
Broad River, South Carolina, January 12, 1781	358	(9)
London, January 19, 1781	367	(9)
New York, August 28, 1781	376	(24)
London, June 1, 1785	400	(3)
Notes	403	(18)
Bibliography	421	(14)
Index	435