Table of Contents
Prologue xi
Chapter 1 Seeds of Rebellion 1
Chapter 2 Marblehead's Leading Families 9
Chapter 3 Massacre and Tea 17
Chapter 4 A Virus and the Revenge of the Loyalists 26
Chapter 5 Boston Port Act 33
Chapter 6 Gunpowder 38
Chapter 7 Arms Race and a Fledgling Government 43
Chapter 8 The Marblehead Regiment 53
Chapter 9 The Forgotten First Shots: The Raid on Fort William and Mary 59
Chapter 10 Salem Nearly Ignites the Revolutionary War 70
Chapter 11 Prelude to War: Rendezvous at Black Horse Tavern 82
Chapter 12 First Blood at Lexington: Disarming the Americans 90
Chapter 13 Concord 96
Chapter 14 The Bloody Gauntlet 101
Chapter 15 Siege, the Army of New England, and Mr. Gerry 108
Chapter 16 The Loyalists 114
Chapter 17 Tyranny, Victims, and the American Narrative 120
Chapter 18 Bunker Hill 126
Chapter 19 General George Washington Arrives in Cambridge 145
Chapter 20 Washington's Covert Navy 151
Chapter 21 Broughton's Odyssey 159
Chapter 22 "This Instance of Divine Favour": Captain John Manley and the Capture of the Nancy 170
Chapter 23 Snowball Fight and a Diverse Regiment 179
Chapter 24 Beverly 185
Chapter 25 Washington's Life Guard and Lifting the Siege of Boston 194
Chapter 26 Dark Days and Hope 204
Chapter 27 Killing Washington and the Invasion 213
Chapter 28 "We Wish to Give Them Another Drubbing": Fire Ships and Invasion 222
Chapter 29 The Decision 234
Chapter 30 American Dunkirk 238
Chapter 31 Kips Bay 246
Chapter 32 The Forgotten Battles That Saved Washington's Army 260
Chapter 33 White Plains 272
Chapter 34 The Darkest Days 278
Chapter 35 Counterattack 291
Chapter 36 The Crossing 297
Chapter 37 Trenton: The Tide Turns 305
Chapter 38 The Epic Stand at Assunpink Creek 319
Chapter 39 Princeton 330
Chapter 40 Home and Back 338
Dramatis Personae 351
Acknowledgments 357
Notes 361
Index 403