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America goes to war : a social history of the Continental Army

eBook, English, ©1996
New York University Press, New York, ©1996
History
1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages)
9780585114507, 9780814759264, 9780814757802, 9780814757826, 0585114501, 0814759262, 0814757804, 0814757820
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1. Few had the appearance of soldiers: the social origins of the continental line
2. The most audacious rascals exxisting: the Irish in the continental army
3. A true pell-mell of human souls: the Germans in the continental army
4. Changing one master for another: black soldiers in the continental army
5. Scalp bounties and truck houses: the struggle for indian allies in the revolution
6. To get as much for my skin as I could: the soldier as wage laborer
7. Running though the line like wildfire: resistance, punishment, desertion, and mutiny in the continental army