"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.