The History of the American Revolution

This edition offers you a complete overview of the American history before the great revolution, the wars after the uprising, and the impact of the revolution itself. This meticulously edited book includes all the documents which are crucial for the history of USA before and after the Revolution and the works that influenced the revolutionary thinking.

Contents:

The History of the American Revolution:

The Beginnings

The Crisis

The Continental Congress

Independence

First Blow at the Centre

Second Blow at the Centre

Saratoga

The French Alliance

Valley Forge

Monmouth and Newport

War on the Frontier

War on the Ocean

A Year of Disasters

Benedict Arnold

Yorktown

Key Speeches and Documents:

First Charter of Virginia (1606)

Second Charter of Virginia (1609)

Mayflower Compact (1620)

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)

Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1651)

The Stamp Act (1765)

Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765)

Virginia Resolutions Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Glorious News, Boston, Friday 11 O'clock, 16th May 1766

Quartering Act of 1765

Townshend Act (1767)

Continental Association (1774)

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry (1775)

Thanksgiving Proclamations (1776, 1777, 1782, 1789)

Common Sense (1776)

Declaration of Independence (1776)

Articles of Confederation (1777)

Constitution (1787)