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Long, obstinate, and bloody the Battle of Guilford Courthouse / by Babits, Lawrence Edward

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The political trial of Benjamin Franklin a prelude to the American Revolution / by Penegar, Kenneth Lawing

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Storm over Savannah : The Story of Count d'Estaing and the Siege of the Town in 1779 / by Lawrence, Alexander A., 1906-1979

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A slaveholders' union slavery, politics, and the constitution in the early American Republic / by Van Cleve, George, 1952-

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Benedict Arnold a traitor in our midst / by Wilson, Barry, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Young Trader, Canadian Connections 3 -- 2 The Rustle of Revolutionary Winds 18 -- 3 Arnold the Revolutionary 32 -- 4 Preparing to Invade Canada 42 -- 5 The March through Maine I 52 -- 6 The March through Maine II: America's Hannibal 62 -- 7 Quebec Awaits 78 -- 8 The Battle for Quebec loi -- 9 Siege and Retreat 111 -- 10 Heroics and Enemies Within 130 -- 11 Politics and Treason 145 -- 12 The Streets of Saint John 164 -- 13 Born-Again Trader 183 -- 14 Arnold vs the Lawyers 191 -- 15 After New Brunswick 217 -- Epilogue 237 -- Notes 239 -- Index 265.…”
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Contested commonwealths essays in American history / by Pencak, William, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…s An astronomical diary -- The beginning of a beautiful friendship : Benjamin Franklin, George Whitefield, the dancing school, and a defense of the "meaner sort" -- John Adams and his contemporaries -- The extended presidency of George Washington (1775-1797) -- Peter Oliver (1713-1791), chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court -- From racket to natural law : the permutation of smuggling into free trade -- "The great war for the empire" reconsidered as a cause of the American Revolution -- The Civil War did not take place.…”
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Creating the British Atlantic essays on transplantation, adaptation, and continuity / by Greene, Jack P.

Table of Contents: “…: the British debate over the status of overseas representative assemblies, 1763-1783 -- Empire and identity from the Elizabethan era to the American Revolution -- "By their laws shall ye know them" : law and identity in colonial British America -- Liberty, slavery, and the transformation of British identity in the eighteenth-century West Indies -- Alterity and the production of identity in the early modern British American empire and the early United States -- State identities and national identity in the era of the American Revolution -- Social and cultural capital in colonization and state building in the early modern era : colonial British America as a case study -- Pluribus or unum? …”
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Key to the northern country the Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- Politics and loyalties -- A suspected loyalist in the rural Hudson River Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge / Kenneth Shefsiek -- "Can you on such principles think of quitting a country?" Family, faith, law, property, and the loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution / Michael Diaz -- New York's committees in the American Revolution / Colin Williams -- Robert R. …”
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No Useless Mouth : Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution / by Herrmann, Rachel B.

Table of Contents: “…Black victual warriors and hunger creation -- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War -- Learning from food laws in Nova Scotia -- Power waning. Victual imperialism and U.S. …”
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