Introduction : changing scenes of war
Sidebar : the Philipsburg encampment
The American Revolution and its early French connections
Turning point on the Hudson : victory at Saratoga leads to the French alliance
Rochambeau's arrival and Arnold's treason
Episodes from the war in Westchester
Now or never our deliverance must come
To New York or to Virginia?
The encampment by the Hudson
George Washington's Westchester gamble
Sidebar : the fate of the American republic was decided on the seas
Epilogue.