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\A respectable army\
A fully revised and updated third edition of the most established and innovative historical analysis of the Continental Army and its role in the formation of the new republic.
* Written by two experts in the field of early U.S. history
* Includes fully updated coverage of the military, political, social, and cultural history of the Revolution
* Features maps, illustrations, a Note on Revolutionary War History and Historiography, and a fully revamped Bibliographical Essay
* Fully established as an essential resource for courses ranging from A.P. U.S. history to graduate seminars on the American Revolution
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A New Jersey Anthology
This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more. The contributors are Michal R. Belknap, Lynn W. Dorsett, Gregory Evans Dowd, Charles E. Funnell, Steve Golin, Maxine N. Lurie, Richard P. McCormick, Gary Mitchell, Simeon F. Moss, Marie Marmo Mullaney, Mary R. Murrin, Gerald M. Pomper, Clement A. Price, Thomas L. Purvis, Daniel Schaffer, Warren E. Stickle III, Maurice Tandler.
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A Traitor's Epiphany: Benedict Arnold in Virginia and His Quest for Reconciliation
The Virginia campaign was an intensely personal test for Arnold. [...]1780, he had inspired soldiers to fight for the Revolution-but could he now convince them to take up arms against it? [...]Muhlenberg had little manpower; volunteer recruits were few, and the Virginia legislature failed to pass a conscription act until July 1780. [...]the Continental brigadier had little authority over state militia, and the militia was problematic. According to Hessian adjutant general Carl Baurmeister, who recorded the embarkation of the expedition, only 100 troops of the American Legion sailed to Virginia. British accounts of the early phases of the campaign consistently noted the willingness of local Tories to provide Arnold's command with information on Patriot militia movements. [...]given the erratic performance of the Virginia citizen soldiers, it was easy to assume (however mistakenly) that popular support for the war was fading.
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The “Cockpit” Reconsidered
Of all the wars in which New Jersey’s residents have been involved, the American Revolution had the greatest direct impact on its territory. The state, sometimes labeled as the “crucible,” “crossroads,” and “cockpit” of the Revolution, was in the middle of the fighting for seven out of the eight long years of this war. In many places the Revolutionary War was also a bitter civil war pitting neighbors, former friends, and relatives against one another. In the following chapter Mark Lender evaluates the state’s role in the war and notes that several hundred small battles, and a number of major
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