Prologue: France, February-April 1777 -- The march of annihilation: Fort Ticonderoga, New York, July-August 1777 -- This cursed, cut-up land: New York, July 1777 -- Fellows willing to go to Heaven: Little Neshaminy Creek, Pennsylvania, August 1777 -- Thine arrows stick fast in me: Oriskany, New York, and Bennington, Vermont, August 1777 -- A barbarous business in a barbarous country: Brandywine, Pennsylvania, September 1777 -- These are dreadful times: Philadelphia and Paoli, Pennsylvania, September 1777 -- Born under a fiery planet: Germantown, Pennsylvania, October 1777 -- To risk all upon one rash stroke: Saratoga, New York, September 1777 -- How art thou fallen: Saratoga, New York, October 1777 -- The elements in flames: Philadelphia, October-December 1777 -- The King's War: London, November 1777-February 1778 -- Blessed is he that expects nothing: Paris, December 1777-March 1778 -- The vortex of small fortunes: Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, January-June 1778 -- I would rather lose the crown: London and Portsmouth, England, April-June 1778 --
The French flag in all its glory: Paris and the English Channel, February-July 1778 -- Flying from a shadow: Monmouth Court House, New Jersey, June 1778 -- Fortune is a fickle jade: New York and Newport, Rhode Island, July-August 1778 -- A star and a stripe from the rebel flag: New York and Savannah, Georgia, October 1778-February 1779 -- The uncertainty of human prospects: Philadelphia, December 1778-February 1779 -- A summons to the Queen's House: London, January-July 1779 -- I detest that sort of war: Hampton Roads, Virginia, and Stony Point, New York, March-July 1779 -- The valley of bones: the American frontier, June-September 1779 -- Everything is now at stake: British home waters, July-September 1779 -- The greatest event that has happened: Savannah, Georgia, September-October 1779 -- Eternity is nearer every day: Morristown, New Jersey, December 1779-February 1780 -- She stoops to conquer: Charleston, South Carolina, February-June 1780 -- Epilogue: Britain and America, 1780.
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