The American RevolutionTimeline- Table of Contents - Further Reading List- Bibliography- Endnotes- Mini-Biographies of Important Figures- Glossary- Index |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 4 |
BLOOD IN THE STREETS | 21 |
A NATION IS BORN | 35 |
THE TURNING POINT | 47 |
A LONG AND DEADLY WINTER | 57 |
TREASON AND TRIUMPH | 69 |
Common terms and phrases
American forces American Revolution American soldiers American troops ammunition attack balls bayonet Benedict Arnold Boston Tea Party Brandywine Creek Breed's Hill Britain British army British forces British soldiers British troops Bunker Hill Burgoyne Burgoyne's camp cannons captured Clinton colonies colonists commander Continental Army Continental Congress Cornwallis Cornwallis's Declaration of Independence defeated early EYEWITNESS QUOTE fight fire fleet Fort Detroit Fort Ticonderoga fought France French and Indian George III George Washington Hessians Horatio Gates hundred invasion Jersey John Lafayette Lake land Lexington and Concord Long Island Loyalists major battle Massachusetts miles military militia militiamen minutemen musket Nathanael Greene navy North October officers Parliament Patriot leaders Patriot troops Pennsylvania Philadelphia protest redcoats rifle Samuel Adams Saratoga Savannah seize sent September ships Sons of Liberty South Carolina Stamp Act Steuben supplies surrender Territory Ticonderoga town Trenton United Valley Forge victory Virginia Washington hoped Washington's army weapons wounded York City Yorktown