Table of Contents
Notes on Dates, Spelling, Language and Names and Titles ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
List of Abbreviations xiv
Prologue: Philadelphia, Monday, 5 September 1774 xv
Part I 'The Chicaneries of Bubble' 1
1 Refugees 2
2 'A Heap of Rubble' 7
3 'The Three Mile Stone' 10
4 'Young Gentlemen' 12
5 'Claptonians' 17
6 'Change Alley 22
7 'The Great Scheme' 28
8 'Lame Ducks' 34
9 Shakespeare's Jubilee 38
10 'A Gloomy Compting House' 48
Part II 'A Little of the Soldier in Him' 55
11 'House of Lords' 56
12 'The Drill Book' 63
13 'Petite Guerre' 71
14 'A Terrible Conflagration' 75
15 'A Man of Nearly Womanlike Modesty and Gentleness' 83
16 'Parting' 90
Part III A Subaltern at War 97
17 'America is in a Flame' 98
18 'Five Feet of Snow' 105
19 'Adverse Winds and Hard Frosts' 117
20 'No Political Correspondence' 130
21 'The Crooked Hill Tavern' 141
22 'No Firelock' 149
Part IV At Secret War 159
23 'The Fair Quakers' 160
24 'Implicit Confidence' 173
25 'These Double Faces' 184
26 'Mutual Confidence' 191
27 Southern Interlude 198
Part V 'The Grand Stroke' 205
28 'False Friends' 206
29 'Armed Boats' 211
30 'A Personal Conference' 218
31 'My Great Mortification' 227
32 'The Chance of Passing Undiscovered' 231
33 'I was Betrayed' 235
34 'It will be but a Momentary Pang' 241
Epilogue: 'Westminster Abbey' 247
Endnotes 253
Bibliography 310
Index 323