The American Revolution

This volume contains writings drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public documents, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda from more than 70 participants--American and British, Patriot and Loyalist, military and civilian. The writings describe the most dramatic events of the War of Independence: the early battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, the failed invasion of Canada, the 1776 campaign in New York and New Jersey, the battle of Saratoga, the bitter cold of Valley Forge, the fighting in the South and along the Western frontier, the treachery of Benedict Arnold, and the triumph at Yorktown.