r will probably
put aside the older biographies of Washington by Marshall, Irving, and
Sparks for more recent "Lives" such as those by Woodrow Wilson, Henry
Cabot Lodge, and Paul Leicester Ford. Haworth, "George Washington,
Farmer" (1915) deals with a special side of Washington's character. The
problems of the army are described in Bolton, "The Private Soldier under
Washington" (1902), and in Hatch, "The Administration of the American
Revolutionary Army" (1904). For military operations Frothingham, "The
Siege of Boston"; Justin H. Smith, "Our Struggle for the Fourteenth
Colony", 2 vols. (1907); Codman, "Arnold's Expedition to Quebec" (1901);
and Lucas, "History of Canada", 1763-1812 (1909).
CHAPTER III.
For the state of opinion in England, the contemporary "Annual Register",
and the writings and speeches of men of the time like Burke, Fox, Horace
Walpole, and Dr. Samuel Johnson. The King's attitude is found in Donne,
"Correspondence of George III with Lord North", 1768-83, 2 vols. (1867).
Stirling, "Coke of Norfolk and his Friends", 2 vols. (1908), gives
the outlook of a Whig magnate; Fitzmaurice, "Life of William, Earl of
Shelburne", 2 vols. (1912), the Whig policy. Curwen's "Journals
and Letters", 1775-84 (1842), show us a Loyalist exile in England.
Hazelton's "The Declaration of Independence, its History" (1906), is an
elaborate study.
CHAPTERS IV, V, AND VI.
The three campaigns--New York, Philadelphia, and the Hudson--are covered
by C. F. Adams, "Studies Military and Diplomatic" (1911), which makes
severe strictures on Washington's strategy; H. P. Johnston's "Campaign
of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn," in the Long Island Historical
Society's "Memoirs", and "Battle of Harlem Heights" (1897); Carrington,
"Battles of the American Revolution" (1904); Stryker, "The Battles
of Trenton and Princeton" (1898); Lucas, "History of Canada" (1909).
Fonblanque's "John Burgoyne" (1876) is a defense of that leader; while
Riedesel's "Letters and Journals Relating to the War of the American
Revolution" (trans. W. L. Stone, 1867) and Anburey's "Travels through
the Interior Parts of America" (1789) are accounts by eye-witnesses.
Mereness' (editor) "Travels in the American Colonies", 1690-1783 (1916)
gives the impressions of Lord Adam Gordon and others.
CHAPTERS VII AND VIII.
On Washington at Valley Forge, Oliver, "Life of Alexander Hamilton"
(1906); Charlemagne Tower, "The Marquis de La Fayette in the American
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