Frontier rebels : the fight for independence in the American West, 1765-1776 /
The story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. Drawing on largely forgotten manuscript sources from archives across North America, Spero recasts the familiar narrative of the American Revolution to reveal how the West playe...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: the crisis of empire
- Setting the stage
- The mission
- The convoy departs
- The attack
- Transformation
- Crisis
- Independence
- The elusive peace
- Disintegration
- Imperial failure
- Revolution
- Epilogue: legacies.