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000333325 010__ $$a  2007009366
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000333325 1001_ $$aFerling, John E.
000333325 24510 $$aAlmost a miracle :$$bthe American victory in the War of Independence /$$cJohn Ferling.
000333325 260__ $$aOxford ;$$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2007.
000333325 300__ $$axiii, 679 p. :$$bill., maps ;$$c24 cm.
000333325 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [653]-661) and index.
000333325 5050_ $$a"My country, my honor, my life" : bravery and death in war -- Pt. 1. Going to war, 1775-1776. "Fear is not an American art" : the coming of the war -- "A loss that is greater than we can bear" : going to war -- Choices, 1775 -- Pt. 2. The war in the North, 1776-1779. "Hastening fast to a crisis" : June 1775-June 1776 -- Choices, 1776 -- "Knock him up for the campaign" : the Battle for New York, 1776 -- "This hour of adversity" : to the end of 1776 -- Choices, 1777 -- "The caprice of war" : America's pivotal victory at Saratoga -- "We rallied and broke" : the Campaign for Philadelphia, September-December 1777 -- Choices, 1778 -- "A respectable army" : the grim year, 1778 -- Choices, 1779 -- "A band of brotherhood" : the soldiers, the army, and the forgotten war in 1779 -- "We have occasioned a good deal of terror" : the war at sea -- Choices, 1780 -- Pt. 3. The war in the South, 1780-1781. "A year filled with our disgraces" : defeat in the South, 1780 -- "Southern means and Southern exertions" : hope and despair, June-December 1780 -- Choices, 1781 -- "Bloody and severe" : the pivotal Southern war, early 1781-- "We are suspended in the balance" : Spring and Summer 1781-- Pt. 4. American victory, 1781-1783. "America is ours" : victory at Yorktown, 1781 -- Choices, 1782 -- "May we have peace in our time" : peace and demobilization, 1782-1783 -- "Little short of a miracle" : accounting for America's victory.
000333325 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bContinental Army$$vBiography.
000333325 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bContinental Army$$xMilitary life.
000333325 650_0 $$aGenerals$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
000333325 650_0 $$aSoldiers$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y18th century.
000333325 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$yRevolution, 1775-1783$$xCampaigns.
000333325 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$yRevolution, 1775-1783$$vBiography.
000333325 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xPolitics and government$$y1775-1783.
000333325 85200 $$bgen$$hE230$$i.F47$$i2007
000333325 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007009366.html
000333325 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2007009366-b.html
000333325 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2007009366-d.html
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