J. Kelly Robison

The War of Independence

  1. Reconciliation Efforts
    1. Franklin's Secret Meetings
    2. New York Provincial Assembly Petition (May 1775)
    3. Olive Branch Petition (July 1775)
    4. Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 1775)
  2. The Military War
    1. The Fighting Begins
      1. Lexington and Concord (April 1775)
      2. Breed's Hill (Bunker Hill) (June 1775)
      3. Ticonderoga
    2. Campaigns in the North
      1. Washington Takes Command
      2. Washington's Narrow Escapes
        1. Brooklyn Heights (August 1776)
        2. White Plains (October 1776)
      3. Redemption - the Battles of Trenton and Princeton (December 1776 & January 1777)
      4. 1777 - The Pivotal Year
        1. Brandywine Creek (Sept)
        2. Germantown (October)
        3. Valley Forge - The Creation of an American Army (1777-1778)
        4. Saratoga - Burgoyne Surrenders an Entire British Army (December)
    3. Gathering Allies
      1. The French Alliance (February 1778)
      2. Spain Joins the Fight Against Britain
      3. The American War of Independence Widens
    4. War in the West
      1. George Rogers Clark and the Far West
      2. Sullivan Against the Iroquois
    5. The War Moves South
      1. Clinton Takes the Coast (1778-79)
      2. Cornwallis Takes Command
        1. Camden (August 1780)
        2. King's Mountain (October 1780)
        3. Cowpens (January 1781)
        4. Guilford Courthouse (March 1781)
    6. The World Turned Upside Down
      1. Cornwallis Surrenders at Yorktown
      2. Yankee Doodle
    7. The Treaty of Paris (1783)
  3. The Social Revolution
    1. Equality and Its Limits
      1. The Paradox of Slavery
      2. Women and the Revolution
    2. The Emergence of an American Culture
      1. Arts in the New Nation
      2. The Revolutionary Mark on Education

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