The Continental Army, Preface and Contents - Page 2 of 2

*Chapter*	Page
1. THE ARMY OF OBSERVATION: NEW ENGLAND IN ARMS	3
Warfare in the Eighteenth Century	3
Colonial Military Experience	5
The Coming of the Revolution	8
Massachusetts Acts	11
Formation of a New England Army	15
Summary	19
2. THE CONTINENTAL ARMY: WASHINGTON AND THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS	21
Adoption of the Army	21
Selection of Commanders	25
Washington Takes Command	29
The War Spreads to Canada	40
Summary	43
3. THE CONTINENTAL REGIMENTS OF 1776: BOSTON AND QUEBEC	45
Washington’s Unified Reorganization	45
The Canadian Department	56
Summary	65
4. AN ARMY TRULY CONTINENTAL: EXPANDING PARTICIPATION	67
The Southern Colonies	67
The Middle Colonies	76
The Departments and the Main Army	82
Summary	89
5. AN ARMY FOR THE WAR: 1777	91
The Eighty-Eight Battalion Resolve	91
Trenton and Princeton	94
Rounding out the Army	98
Fielding the New Army	107
Summary	119
6. PROFESSIONALISM: NEW INFLUENCES FROM EUROPE	121
Valley Forge	121
Foreign Advisers	128
The Contributions of Steuben	137
The Reorganization of 1778- 79 in Practice	146
Summary	151
7. PERSEVERANCE TO VICTORY	153
Economy and the 1781 Reorganization	153
Triumph at Yorktown	165
The Road to Newburgh	171
Peace	179
Concluding Remarks	182
LINEAGES (Note: Not Currently Included)	195
New Hampshire	197
Massachusetts	203
Rhode Island	227
Connecticut	233
New York	247
New Jersey	255
Pennsylvania	259
Delaware	273
Maryland	277
Virginia	283
North Carolina	299
South Carolina	305
Georgia	313
Canada	317
Extra and Additional Continental Regiments	319
Miscellaneous Units	329
Artillery	335
Light Dragoons, Partisan Corps, and Legionary Corps	345
BIBLIOGRAPHY [NOTE: Not Included]	355
Appendix
A. U.S. Army Units Dating From the Revolution[NOTE: Not Included (out of date)]	429
B. Department Commanders	431
C. Principal Staff Officers	432
D. Engagements	433
GLOSSARY	435
INDEX [NOTE: Not Included]	441

Tables

No.
1. Infantry Regiments 1775	13
2. 1775 Officers Willing To Serve in 1776	51
3. Regiments, 1776	69
4. Distribution of Regiments 1777	93
5. 1781 Quotas	157

Charts

No.	Page
1. Massachusetts Artillery Regiment 1775	14
2. Infantry Regiment 1776	47
3. British Infantry Regiment 25 August 1775	48
4. Artillery Regiment 1776	53
5. South Carolina Artillery Regiment 12 November 1775	73
6. Hesse-Cassel Infantry Regiment 1776	95
7. Light Dragoon Regiment 1777	107
8. Infantry Regiment 27 May 1778	127
9. Light Dragoon Regiment 27 May 1778	128
10. Infantry Regiment Deployed in Two Battalions 1779	143
11. Infantry Regiment 1781	158
12. Artillery Regiment 1781	159
13. Legionary Corps 1781	160
14. Partisan Corps 1781	161

Maps
(Only the First One Currently Included)

Territorial Departments	83
New Hampshire	196
Massachusetts	202
Rhode Island	228
Connecticut	232
New York	246
New Jersey	254
Pennsylvania	260
Delaware	274
Maryland	276
Virginia	284
North Carolina	298
South Carolina	306
Georgia	312
Canada	316

Illustrations
(Not Currently Included)

They Scrambled up the Parapet (Frontispiece)
Timothy Pickering	9
Artemas Ward	12
John Adams	23
Otho Holland Williams	24
Horatio Gates	27
Nathanael Greene	28
Boston, July 1775	30
General Return, Main Army, 19 July 1775	31
Pay Roll	33
Muster Roll	34
Thomas Mifflin	37
Marinus Willett	43
James Mitchell Varnum	52
Henry Knox	54
Philip Van Cortlandt	61
Benjamin Franklin	63
Second Embarkation, New London, 1776	64
Thomas Sumter	74
Lachlan McIntosh	76
Commission of Alexander Spotswood	77
Anthony Wayne	79
William Smallwood	80
The Declaration of Independence	86
George Clinton	88
General Return, Main Army, 22 December 1776	96
George Baylor	97
David Forman	101
Thomas Forrest	103
John Eager Howard	111
John Laurens	115
Elias Boudinot	116
Henry Dearborn	117
Marie- Paul-Joseph- Roch-Yves-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette	123
Oath of Allegiance of Benedict Arnold	124
Louis le Begue de Presle Duportail	129
Thaddeus Kosciuszko	130
Casimir Pulaski	133
Benjamin Flower	135
Henri Bouquet	138
Jean-Baptiste, chevalier de Temant	140
Enlistment Form of Private Shafer	144
Benjamin Lincoln	148
Johannes de Kalb	155
Charles Tuffin Armand, marquis de la Rouerie	162
Joseph Reed	164
Arthur St. Clair	166
Henry Lee	168
William Washington	169
Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau	171
General Return, Main Army, 27 October 1781	172
Robert Morris	173
Monthly Return, Main Army, June 1782	174
The Resignation of Washington	181
Size Roll	185
Newburgh, May 1783	353

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The following color illustrations appear between pages 187 and 194:

The Battle of Bunker Hill

The Death of General Warren at Bunker Hill

Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec

The Retreat Through the Jerseys

Capture of the Hessians at Trenton

The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton

Attack Upon the Chew House

The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga

The Meeting of Greene and Gates

Guilford Court House, 15 March 1781

Thomas Shubrick

Morgan Lewis

Jacob Kingsbury

Jacob Reed, Jr.

Henry Henley Chapman

William Trueman Stoddard

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown

Frederick Wihelm Augustus von Steuben

Illustrations courtesy of the following sources: p. 135 from the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Association; pp. 138 and 162 from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; p. 101 from the Permanent Collection, the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass.; p. 63 from the American Philosophical Society; pp. 43 and 88 from the Art Commission of the City of New York; p. 97 and between pp. 187 and 194 from the Anderson House Museum of the Society of the Cincinnati (photographs by Sgt. Jim Moore, 50th Military History Detachment); the frontispiece and between pp. 187 and 194 from the Delaware Art Museum, Howard Pyle Collection; pp. 9, 12, 23, 24, 27, 28, 37, 52, 54, 61, 74, 76, 79, 80, 103, 111, 115, 116, 117, 123, 129, 130, 133, 140, 148, 155, 164, 166, 168, 169, 171, 173, and between pp. 187 and 194 from the Independence National Historical Park Collection; and p. 86 and between pp. 187 and 194 are copyright the Yale University Art Gallery. The documents on pp. 31, 33, 34, 77, 96, 124, 144, 172, 174, and 185 are from Record Group 93, National Archives. Illustrations on pp. 30, 64, and between pp. 187 and 194 are from the Army Art Collection. The line art on pp. 328, 334, and 344 is by William S. Ballou, Typography and Design Division, U.S. Government Printing Office.

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