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Acclaimed author Milton Meltzer gathers together a cast of characters in this compelling collage of eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution. Photos and documents throughout make the vivid text come alive. "Will make young readers look at history in a whole new way".--Booklist. ALA Best Books for Young Adults.

Foreword

xi

Introduction

1

(4)

They Cry Out for Home

5

(10)

Whipped Like an Animal

15

(5)

The Men Were So Panic Struck

20

(9)

I Believe Liberty Is the Slave's Right

29

(8)

We Are Not Bound to Yield Obedience

37

(5)

Seventeen Hundred Levellers with Firearms

42

(4)

Nothing Can Eradicate the Seeds of Liberty

46

(2)

A Tea Party

48

(4)

You Damned Rebels

52

(6)

Against Great Odds

58

(4)

A Town Under Siege

62

(7)

Did Polly Set the Sponge for the Bread?

69

(4)

I Believe This Year Will Decide the Fate of America

73

(7)

'Tis Time to Part

80

(5)

Remember the Ladies!

85

(7)

We Hold These Truths

92

(4)

A Fortunate Retreat

96

(5)

We Pounced Upon the Hessians Like an Eagle

101

(8)

My Brave Fellows, Your Country Is at Stake

109

(3)

We Cannot Kill Our Fellowmen

112

(3)

Turning Point

115

(3)

The Times That Try Men's Souls

118

(6)

Death Ceased to Terrify

124

(6)

Black Bravery

130

(4)

War in Indian Country

134

(4)

Death Is a Daily Visitor

138

(3)

I'm Not Afraid of the Cannonballs

141

(6)

They Are Crying for Quarter!

147

(5)

It Was a Mutiny

152

(6)

The People Have Become Savage

158

(6)

The True Sovereign

164

(4)

Be Bold and Daring

168

(5)

We Beamed with Joy

173

(5)

Never a Good War or a Bad Peace

178

(2)

A Band of Brothers

180

(5)

This Country Has So Many Charms

185

(6)

We, the People of the United States

191

(5)

A Bill of Rights

196

(5)

A Note on Sources

201

(4)

Index

205

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The American Revolutionaries

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