4. Frederic Franklyn Van de Water,
Lake Champlain and Lake George
(New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1946), 180.
5. Willard Sterne Randall,
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor
(New York: Morrow, 1990), 260.
6. Ibid., 242.
7. Ibid., 262.
8. Eliot A. Cohen,
Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War
(New York: Free Press, 2011), 185.
9. Richard Wheeler,
Voices of 1776
(New York: Crowell, 1972), 150.
10. James L. Nelson,
Benedict Arnold’s Navy: The Ragtag Fleet that Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution
(Camden, ME: International Marine, 2006), 318.
11. Thomas J. Fleming,
1776, Year of Illusions
(New York: Norton, 1975), 397.
12. Randall,
Benedict Arnold,
317.
Chapter 8: An Indecisive Mind, 1776
1. Henry Steele Commager, ed.,
The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 460.
2. David G. McCullough,
1776
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 207.
3. Barnet Schecter,
The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution
(New York: Walker, 2002), 183.
4. McCullough,
1776,
211.
5. Ibid., 212.
6. Ron Chernow,
Washington: A Life
(New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 254.
7. David Hackett Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 95.
8. McCullough,
1776,
215.
9. Mark Puls,
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 62.
10. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 142.
11. Chernow,
Washington,
258.
12. Charles Bracelen Flood,
Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times along the Road to Independence
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976), 102.
13. Ibid., 103.
14. Ibid., 118.
15. Ibid., 123.
16. Schecter,
The Battle for New York,
255.
17. Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing,
114.
18. Schecter,
The Battle for New York,
256.
19. McCullough,
1776,
247.
20. Ibid., 244.
21. Ibid., 248.
22. John W. Shy,
A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990), 150.
23. Ibid., 153.
24. McCullough,
1776,
265.
25. Schecter,
The Battle for New York,
265.
26. Terry Golway,
Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
(New York: H. Holt, 2005), 106.
27. Commager,
The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six,
5.
Chapter 9: He That Stands by It Now, 1776
1. David Hackett Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 159.
2. Samuel Stelle Smith,
The Battle of Trenton
(Monmouth Beach, NJ: Philip Freneau Press,1965), 15.
3. Ron Chernow,
Washington: A Life
(New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 270.
4. Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing,
143.
5. Ibid., 143.
6. Ibid., 218.
7. Mark Puls,
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 74.
8. Henry Steele Commager, ed.,
The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 513.
9. Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing,
220.
10. Ibid., 241.
11. Commager,
The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six,
513.
12. North Callahan,
Henry Knox, General Washington’s General
(New York: Rinehart, 1958), 91.
13. Puls,
Henry Knox,
80.
14. Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing,
309.
15. Richard Wheeler,
Voices of 1776
(New York, Crowell, 1972), 181.
16. Chernow,
Washington,
281.
17. Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing,
332.
18. Ibid., 344.
19. Ibid., 353.
Chapter 10: A Continual Clap of Thunder, 1777
1. Benson Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 253.
2. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 223.
3. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy,
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 124.
4. David Wilson,
The Life of Jane McCrea, with an Account of Burgoyne’s Expedition in 1777
(New York: Baker, Goodwin, 1853), 79.
5. Henry Steele Commager, ed.,
The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 560.
6. Richard M. Ketchum,
Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War
(New York: H. Holt, 1997), 276.
7. Matthew H. Spring,
With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), 18.
8. Ben Z. Rose,
John Stark: Maverick General
(Waverley, MA: TreeLine Press, 2007), 18.
9. Ibid., 100.
10. Gerald Howson,
Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography
(New York: Times Books, 1978), 162.
11. Ketchum,
Saratoga,
288.
12. Ibid., 289.
13. Ibid., 248.
14. Rose,
John Stark,
82.
15. Ibid., 120.
16. Michael P. Gabriel,
The Battle of Bennington: Soldiers & Civilians
(Charleston, SC: History Press, 2012), 73.
17. Spring,
With Zeal and with Bayonets Only
, 332.
18. Ketchum,
Saratoga,
307.
19. Ibid., 312.
20. Commager,
The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six,
573.
21. Gabriel,
The Battle of Bennington,
102.
22. Ketchum,
Saratoga,
329.
23. Ibid., 330.
24. Ibid., 324.
Chapter 11: Fight as Well as Brag, 1777
1. Paul David Nelson,
Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 7.
2. George Athan Billias, ed.,
George Washington’s Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1964–1969), 287.
3. Nelson,
Anthony Wayne,
34.
4. Nelson,
Anthony Wayne,
2–3.
5. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 249.
6. Ibid., 249–50.
7. Terry Golway,
Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
(New York: H. Holt, 2005), 142.
8. Christopher Ward,
The War of the Revolution
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 360.
9. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
251.
10. Ibid., 252.
11. Nelson,
Anthony Wayne,
59.
12. Ibid., 60.
13. Ron Chernow,
Washington: A Life
(New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 310.
14. Page Smith,
A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 970.
15. Chernow,
Washington,
311.
Chapter 12: Something More at Stake, 1777
1. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy,
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 154.
2. Willard Sterne Randall,
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor
(New York: Morrow, 1990), 351.
3. Paul David Nelson,
General Horatio Gates: A Biography
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 108.
4. Don Higginbotham,
Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 61.
5. Max M. Mintz,
The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne & Horatio Gates
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 18.
6. Randall,
Benedict Arnold,
350.
7. Richard M. Ketchum,
Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War
(New York: H. Holt, 1997), 348.
8. Ibid., 363.
9. Christopher Ward,
The War of the Revolution
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 510.
10. Christopher Duffy,
The Military Experience in the Age of Reason
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), 163.
11. Ketchum,
Saratoga,
363.
12. Christopher Hibbert,
Redcoats & Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes
(New York: Norton, 1990), 185.
13. Ward,
The War of the Revolution,
511.
14. Ketchum,
Saratoga,
368.
15. Ibid., 369.
16. Randall,
Benedict Arnold,
359.
17. Nelson,
General Horatio Gates,
134.
18. Ibid., 126.
19. Randall,
Benedict Arnold,
362.
20. Ibid., 360.
21. Nelson,
General Horatio Gates,
132.
22. Ketchum,
Saratoga,
394.
23. Ibid., 398.
24. Henry Steele Commager, ed.,
The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 593.
25. Ketchum,
Saratoga,
394.
26. Ibid., 399.
27. Ibid., 400.
28. Mintz,
The Generals of Saratoga,
194.
29. Harlow G. Unger,
Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010), 132.
30. Higginbotham,
Daniel Morgan,
76.
31. Ketchum,
Saratoga,
441.
Chapter 13: The Discipline of the Leggs, 1778
1. Christopher Ward,
The War of the Revolution
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 543.
2. Wayne K. Bodle,
The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), 128.
3. Edward G. Lengel,
General George Washington: A Military Life
(New York: Random House, 2005), 267.
4. Bodle,
The Valley Forge Winter,
112–13.
5. Benson Bobrick,
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 289.
6. Terry Golway,
Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
(New York: H. Holt, 2005), 162.
7. Ibid., 165.
8. Ibid., 198.
9. Ibid., 159.
10. Ibid., 158.
11. David A. Clary,
Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution
(New York: Bantam Books, 2007), 117.
12. Paul David Nelson,
Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 66.
13. John E. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 283.
14. Paul Douglas Lockhart,
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the American Army
(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2008), 42.
15. Bruce Chadwick,
The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America’s First Fight for Freedom
(Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2005), 29.
16. Lockhart,
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge,
133.
17. Ibid., 89.
18. Ibid., 88.
19. Ibid., 109.
20. Bodle,
The Valley Forge Winter,
201.
21. Ferling,
Almost a Miracle,
293.
22. Ron Chernow,
Washington: A Life
(New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 336.
23. Ibid., 338.
24. Lockhart,
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge,
132.
25. Harlow G. Unger,
Lafayette
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002), 77.
26. Lockhart,
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge,
162.