Redcoats and Rebels, The American Revolution Through British Eyes, by Christopher Hibbert
W.W. Norton & Company, 1990
338 pages, plus 16 pages of illustrations; "The Fate of Characters Whose End Is Not Recorded in the Text"; (8 pages of 2-para or so summaries), Bibliography, Illustration Credits and Index
Library: 973.3 HIN
Back Matter
[The story? - thank you library for placing a sticker over the text!] of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict betweeen blundering British generals on the one side and heroic American patriots on the other. In this compelling narrative, the acclaimed popular historian Christopher Hibbert offers the Revolution from the unique perspective of the vanquished. Here the famous heroes and villains on both sides-Washington, Revere, Burgoyne, Cornwallis, Benedict Arnold-come to life in a vivid narrative that reveals not only how the colonists won the war but also why the English lost it.
Table of Contents
Table of Principle Events
Author's Notes and Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part One
1. Sons of Liberty
2. First Blood
3. Bunker Hill
4. Washington Takes Command
5. 'An Ugly Job'
6. The War in Canada
7. Disasters in Virginia
Part Two
8. The Declaration of Independence
9. The for New York
10. Generals at Loggerheads
11. Winter on the Delaware
12. The Fall of Philadelphia
13. The Army of the North
14. Surrender at Saratoga
15. The English Debate
16. Intrigues at Valley Forge
17. Fighting at Monmouth Court House
18. Enemies of the French
Part Three
19. Marching Through Georgia
20. Quarrels in New York
21. Butchers and Patriots
22. Slaughter on King's Mountain
23. The Traitor and the Spy
24. With Cornwallis in the Carolinas
25. The Road to Yorktown
Epilogue
The Fate of Characters Whose End is Not Recorded in the Text
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Maps
1. The American colonies in 1775
2. The Siege of Boston
3. The Northern Campaigns, 1775-6
4. Charleston and Environs
5. New York and Environs
6. Howe's Philadelphia Campaign
7. The Northern Campaigns
8. The Southern Campaigns
9. The Siege of Yorktown
Illustrations
1.Boston Massacre, 29th Regiment vs mob. With Captain Preston
2. Tea Party at Griffin's Wharf on 16 December 1773
3. Frederick, Lord North, King George III's Prime Minister
4. John Burgoyne
5. Major-General Sir Henry Clinton
6. Lord George Germain, secretary of state for the American Department in Lord North's administration
7. Charles Lee
8. Bunker's Hill or America's Headdress
9. Six pence a day - satire on the lot of the Redcoat
10. The pulling down of GEorge III's statue in Bowling Green, NY
11. New York fire
12. General Burgoyne's Camp on the Hudson River, with funeral procession of Brigadier General Simon Fraser
13. The Conference Between the Brothers How to Get Rich
14. Major John Andre
15. The Count de Rochambeau, reviewing French troops, caricature
16. Lord Cornwallis' defeat of the rebels at Guildford, North Carolina
17. The Savages Let Loose or the Cruel Fate of the Loyalists
18. Britannia and America Embracing as France and Spain try to pull them apart
19. A British drummer and fifer
20. German mercenaries of the Prince Carl regiment
21. American infantry sketched by Baron von Closen, aide-de-camp to French commander Rochambeau. A black light infantryman of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, a musketeer of the 2nd Canadian regiment, a rifleman, and a gunner of the Continental Artillery
22. The Bloody [Boston] Massacre, engraving by Paul Revere
23. Paul Revere
24. Sir William Howe directing the evacuation of Boston in March 1776
25. Benedict Arnold
26 Death of Brigadier-General Richard Montgomery before Quebec
27. Royal Navy Bombarding Fort Moultrie
28. Thomas Jefferson presenting Declaration of Independence to Congress, painting by John Trumbull
29. George Washington by Charles Wilson Peale
30. George Washington leads forces at Princeton
31. Battle pf Germantown by Xavier della Gatta
32. British surrender at Saratoga, by John Trumbull
33. Christmas Day 1777, George Washington and his wife visit troops at Valley Forge
34. Siege of Charleston
35. Banastre Tarleton full length portrait by Joshua Reynolds
36. John Singleton Copley's portrait of Lord Cornwallis
37. Surrender at Yorktown, painting by John Trumbull
