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Title: Washington and his Comrades in Arms
A Chronicle of the War of Independence
Author: George Wrong
Posting Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #2704]
Release Date: July, 2001
Language: English
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WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES IN ARMS,
A CHRONICLE OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Volume 12 in the Chronicles of America Series. Abraham Lincoln Edition.
By George M. Wrong
PREFATORY NOTE
The author is aware of a certain audacity in undertaking, himself a
Briton, to appear in a company of American writers on American history
and above all to write on the subject of Washington. If excuse is needed
it is to be found in the special interest of the career of Washington to
a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations at the present time and
in the urgency with which the editor and publishers declared that such
an interpretation would not be unwelcome to Americans and pressed upon
the author a task for which he doubted his own qualifications. To the
editor he owes thanks for wise criticism. He is also indebted to Mr.
Worthington Chauncey Ford, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a
great authority on Washington, who has kindly read the proofs and given
helpful comments. Needless to say the author alone is responsible for
opinions in the book.
University of Toronto, June 16, 1920.
CONTENTS
I. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
II. BOSTON AND QUEBEC
III. INDEPENDENCE
IV. THE LOSS OF NEW YORK
V. THE LOSS OF PHILADELPHIA
VI. THE FIRST GREAT BRITISH DISASTER
VII. WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES AT VALLEY FORGE
VIII. THE ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE AND ITS RESULTS
IX. THE WAR IN THE SOUTH
X. FRANCE TO THE RESCUE
XI. YORKTOWN
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
WASHINGTON AND HIS COMRADES IN ARMS
CHAPTER I. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
Moving among the members of the second Continental Congress, which met
at Philadelphia in May, 1775, was one, and but o
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