The Philadelphia Campaign, Volume 1: Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia
Now in paperback, this is the first in a monumental two-volume set on the pivotal 1777 campaign of the American Revolution.• An in-depth examination of the military engagements that resulted in the British capture of Philadelphia. • The compelling account of the fight for the Continental capital, based on surviving accounts of soldiers and civilians"The Philadelphia Campaign is first-rate, an absorbing work of tenacious research and close scholarship. Thomas J. McGuire knows the time of the American Revolution and has been over the ground in and about Philadelphia in a way few writers ever have. But it is his empathy for the human reality of war and the great variety of people caught up in it, whether in the service of the king or the Glorious Cause of America, that makes this book especially alive and memorable." —David McCullough, author of John Adams and 1776
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The Philadelphia Campaign, Volume 1: Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia
Now in paperback, this is the first in a monumental two-volume set on the pivotal 1777 campaign of the American Revolution.• An in-depth examination of the military engagements that resulted in the British capture of Philadelphia. • The compelling account of the fight for the Continental capital, based on surviving accounts of soldiers and civilians"The Philadelphia Campaign is first-rate, an absorbing work of tenacious research and close scholarship. Thomas J. McGuire knows the time of the American Revolution and has been over the ground in and about Philadelphia in a way few writers ever have. But it is his empathy for the human reality of war and the great variety of people caught up in it, whether in the service of the king or the Glorious Cause of America, that makes this book especially alive and memorable." —David McCullough, author of John Adams and 1776
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The Philadelphia Campaign, Volume 1: Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Campaign, Volume 1: Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia

by Thomas J. McGuire
The Philadelphia Campaign, Volume 1: Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Campaign, Volume 1: Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia

by Thomas J. McGuire

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Now in paperback, this is the first in a monumental two-volume set on the pivotal 1777 campaign of the American Revolution.• An in-depth examination of the military engagements that resulted in the British capture of Philadelphia. • The compelling account of the fight for the Continental capital, based on surviving accounts of soldiers and civilians"The Philadelphia Campaign is first-rate, an absorbing work of tenacious research and close scholarship. Thomas J. McGuire knows the time of the American Revolution and has been over the ground in and about Philadelphia in a way few writers ever have. But it is his empathy for the human reality of war and the great variety of people caught up in it, whether in the service of the king or the Glorious Cause of America, that makes this book especially alive and memorable." —David McCullough, author of John Adams and 1776

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780811714433
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Publication date: 09/15/2014
Series: Stackpole Military History Series , #1
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Thomas McGuire teaches American history at Malvern Preparatory School near Paoli, Pennsylvania, and is the author of Battle of Paoli and Stop The Revolution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue 1

Chapter 1 "This unhappy Country, This Country, turned Topsy Turvy.": Northern New Jersey, Winter-Spring 1777 5

Chapter 2 "Where the storm will turn now, no one knows as yet.": The Middle Atlantic States, July-August 1777 63

Chapter 3 "But is this conquering America?": Philadelphia and Points South, Late August-Early September 1777 117

Chapter 4 "As heavy a Fire from the Musketry as perhaps has been known this war.": The Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777 169

Chapter 5 "Now prepare thyself, Pennsylvania, to meet the Lord thy God!": The Fall of Philadelphia, September 12-25, 1777 263

Endnotes 329

Glossary of Eighteenth-Century Military Terms 396

Bibliography 400

Index 412

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