Yankee Doodle and the Redcoats: Soldiering in the Revolutionary WarTwenty-First Century Books, 2007. 7. 31. - 112페이지 ?Our five companies flew to arms. The whole population was convulsed with the most vehement excitement. We were unprovided with cartridges; and were compelled to defer our march until morning. I spent most of that agitated night, with many of our company, in running bullets and preparing ammunition. We mustered early the next morning, and marched for the scene of action.? ?Patriot soldier Elkanah Watson The soldiers of the Revolutionary War?the Yankee Doodles and the Redcoats?had countless stories to tell. Using excerpts from soldiers? diaries and letters home, author Susan Provost Beller brings the daily struggles of the Revolutionary War soldiers to life with first-person accounts of battles, as well as commentary about camp life, weather, food, and equipment. As the war dragged on, the soldiers lamented disease and death and the hardships as prisoners of war. These accounts give us a better understanding for the sacrifices made during the birth of our country. |
목차
Prologue | 6 |
Chapter 1 Patriot Or Loyalist? | 8 |
Chapter 2 The Soldiers From Home | 14 |
Chapter 3 The Soldiers From Across The Ocean | 28 |
Chapter 4 Life In A Revolutionary Camp | 36 |
Chapter 5 Disease And Death | 45 |
Chapter 6 On The March | 50 |
Chapter 7 Words From The Field | 54 |
Chapter 11 Aftermath | 89 |
Map Of The Revolutionary War | 96 |
Selected Chronology Of The Revolutionary War | 97 |
Source Notes | 98 |
Selected Bibliography | 103 |
For Further Information | 107 |
109 | |
About The AuthorPhoto Acknowledgments | 112 |
Chapter 8 Wounded Or Killed | 74 |
Chapter 9 Prisoners Of War | 78 |
Chapter 10 The Surrender At Yorktown | 82 |
Back Cover | 114 |
기타 출판본 - 모두 보기
자주 나오는 단어 및 구문
African American allies American Revolution ammunition Anburey attack battle bayonet Benjamin Tallmadge Boston Boudinot Britain British and Hessian British army British soldiers British troops Burgoyne camp Canada cannons Captain colonists commander Company Continental army Continental Congress death defeat Diary diers disease doctors Ebenezer Fletcher Ebenezer Huntington enemy evacuate fighting forces Fort Ticonderoga fought French George Washington Guilford Courthouse Hessian Hessian soldiers Historians Historical Society Indian Isaac Senter James Thacher Jersey Johann Ewald John killed Kings Mountain Lake Champlain lbid Letters Lexington Library of Congress Lord Cornwallis Loyalists Manuscript Division Marquis de Lafayette Massachusetts Memoirs Military Journal militias Mount Independence National Historical Park Native officers Orderly Book Patriot soldiers Patriot troops Pennsylvania Philadelphia prisoners rebellion rebels Redcoats regiment retreat Revolution New York Revolutionary Riedesel Saratoga South Carolina southern colonies supplies surrender Thomas thousand Ticonderoga Valley Forge victory Virginia William Feltman wounded wrote Yankee Doodle York City Yorktown