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Book

Hurricane of independence : the untold story of the deadly storm at the deciding moment of the American Revolution

Call Number

  • 973.3 W7278 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2008.

Physical Description

xviii, 299 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Prologue : the storm of revolution
  • Tempest brewing
  • Impending doom on the Outer Banks
  • First strike : the hurricane of independence roars ashore
  • Norfolk : an attack on both sides
  • Tobacco and gunpowder
  • Landon Carter : diarist and planter-philosopher of the Northern Neck
  • The streets of Annapolis
  • Lightning and enlightenment
  • The colonies unite in Philadelphia against British tyranny
  • The radical, the President, and the general in Philadelphia
  • Striking the Second Continental Congress
  • The heroic collegian : Hamilton in New York
  • Whither the hurricane of independence?
  • War erupts
  • General Washington and his patriotic citizen-soldiers battle the British and the weather
  • Fishing for cod during the summer in Newfoundland
  • The hurricane
  • Epilogue : the providential American victory.

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