The American Revolution in the Delaware Valley

Eight Revolutionary War sites near Philadelphia, scenes of heroic battles, military movements, and encampments of the fledgling patriot army, provide the locale for this colorful Bicentennial narrative. The significance of the major military events on Pennsylvania soil during the eighteen-month period of December 1776 to May 1778 emerges from the author's absorbing account of Washington's crossing of the Delaware, of the Battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, Fort Mifflin, and Barren Hill, and of the cantonments at Valley Forge and Yellow Springs. The story of these hallowed places and of the action they witnessed is told largely in the words of eyewitnesses - a young Philadelphia Quakeress, a Hessian officer, a Chester County farmer, and of Washington himself - and is augmented by the illustrative use of superb prints, maps and photographs.