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EARLY APTITUDES FOR SUCCESS 1

THE FERMENT OF AMERICAN LIBERTY 10

THE OUTBREAK OF REPRESSED LIBERTY 20

ARMED AMERICA NEEDS A SOLDIER 31

WASHINGTON IN COMMAND 41

BRITISH CANADA ENTERS THE FIELD OF ACTION 50

HOWE SUCCEEDS GATES.--CLOSING SCENES OF 1775 58

AMERICA AGAINST BRITAIN.--BOSTON TAKEN 68

SYSTEMATIC WAR WITH BRITAIN BEGUN 82

BRITAIN AGAINST AMERICA.--HOWE INVADES NEW YORK 93

BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND 101

WASHINGTON IN NEW YORK 114

WASHINGTON TENDERS, AND HOWE DECLINES, BATTLE.--HARLEM HEIGHTS AND WHITE PLAINS 125

THE FIRST NEW JERSEY CAMPAIGN.--TRENTON 134

THE FIRST NEW JERSEY CAMPAIGN DEVELOPED.--PRINCETON 150

THE AMERICAN BASE OF OPERATIONS ESTABLISHED.--THE SECOND NEW JERSEY CAMPAIGN 160

BRITISH INVASION FROM CANADA.--OPERATIONS ALONG THE HUDSON 171

PENNSYLVANIA INVADED.--BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE 181

WASHINGTON RESUMES THE OFFENSIVE.--BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN 192

JEALOUSY AND GREED DEFEATED.--VALLEY FORGE 198

PHILADELPHIA AND VALLEY FORGE IN WINTER, 1778 210

FROM VALLEY FORGE TO WHITE PLAINS AGAIN.--BATTLE OF MONMOUTH 221

THE ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE TAKES EFFECT.--SIEGE OF NEWPORT 238

MINOR EVENTS AND GRAVE CONDITIONS, 1779 246

MINOR OPERATIONS OF 1779 CONTINUED.--STONY POINT TAKEN.--NEW ENGLAND RELIEVED 255

SHIFTING SCENES.--TEMPER OF THE PEOPLE.--SAVANNAH 263

THE EVENTFUL YEAR 1780.--NEW JERSEY ONCE MORE INVADED 269

BATTLE OF SPRINGFIELD.--ROCHAMBEAU.--ARNOLD.--GATES 282

A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE THEATRE OF WAR 294

THE SOLDIER TRIED.--AMERICAN MUTINY.--FOREIGN JUDGMENT.--ARNOLD'S DEPREDATIONS 304

THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN, 1781, OUTLINED.--COWPENS.--GUILFORD COURT-HOUSE.--EUTAW SPRINGS 312