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Book

The American Revolution

Call Number

  • 973.3 T4686 TEEN (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Physical Description

320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Summary

A fierce group of rebels who will never surrender. An empire with an army that has never known defeat. And a war that changed the world forever.

Contents

  • The sons of liberty
  • The shot heard round the world
  • Bunker Hill
  • Building the Continental Army
  • The invasion of Canada
  • A declaration of independence
  • The empire strikes back
  • Crossing the Delaware
  • The Marquis de Lafayette
  • Saratoga
  • Valley Forge
  • Courting France
  • The legend of Molly Pitcher
  • "Mad Anthony and the Virginia Hercules
  • The Culper ring
  • The war on the frontier
  • Not yet begun to fight
  • Deborah Sampson
  • Butcher Tarleton
  • Yorktown.

Subjects

Added Authors

C M Butzer