ion", 2 vols. (1895); Greene, "Life of Nathanael Greene" (1893);
Brooks, "Henry Knox" (1900); Graham, "Life of General Daniel Morgan"
(1856); Kapp, "Life of Steuben" (1859); Arnold, "Life of Benedict
Arnold" (1880). On the army Bolton and Hatch as cited; Mahan gives a
lucid account of naval effort. Barrow, "Richard, Earl Howe" (1838) is
a dull account of a remarkable man. On the French alliance, Perkins,
"France in the American Revolution" (1911), Corwin, "French Policy and
the American Alliance of 1778" (1916), and Van Tyne on "Influences which
Determined the French Government to Make the Treaty with America, 1778,"
in "The American Historical Review", April, 1916.
CHAPTER IX.
Fortescue, as cited, gives excellent plans. Other useful books are
McCrady, "History of South Carolina in the Revolution" (1901); Draper,
"King's Mountain and its Heroes" (1881); Simms, "Life of Marion" (1844).
Ross (editor), "The Cornwallis Correspondence", 3 vols. (1859), and
Tarleton, "History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern
Provinces of North America" (1787), give the point of view of British
leaders. On the West, Thwaites, "How George Rogers Clark won the
Northwest" (1903); and on the Loyalists Van Tyne, "The Loyalists in the
American Revolution" (1902), Flick, "Loyalism in New York" (1901), and
Stark, "The Loyalists of Massachusetts" (1910).
CHAPTERS X AND XI.
For the exploits of John Paul Jones and of the American navy, Mrs. De
Koven's "The Life and Letters of John Paul Jones", 2 vols. (1913),
Don C. Seitz's "Paul Jones", and G. W. Allen's "A Naval History of the
American Revolution", 2 vols. (1913), should be consulted. Jusserand's
"With Americans of Past and Present Days" (1917) contains a chapter
on 'Rochambeau and the French in America'; Johnston's "The Yorktown
Campaign" (1881) is a full account; Wraxall, "Historical Memoirs of my
own Time" (1815, reprinted 1904), tells of the reception of the news of
Yorktown in England.
The "Encyclopaedia Britannica" has useful references to authorities
for persons prominent in the Revolution and "The Dictionary of National
Biography" for leaders on the British side.
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