title: The New American Revolution Handbook: Facts and Artwork for Readers of All Ages (Paperback) - Common
author: Theodore P.; Dameron, J. David Savas
description: This remarkable new handbook makes studying the Revolutionary War simple and pleasurable. The authors use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps, tables, charts, and dozens of drawings to trace the history of the Revolution from the beginning of the conflict through the final surrender in 1783.The New American Revolution Handboo...
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  For Lorrie Neill Kamensky,  
  and in memory of Donald Louis Kamensky
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Great Revolutions in Government, are generally attended with great Calamity to
  Individuals.
  
  
  —Elisha Hutchinson to Margaret Hutchinson, January 1776
  
  
  Many of the Shades of the Portraits, both of Persons & Times, I confess are
  very dark: that is not my Fault. My Business was to draw true Portraits.
  
  
  —Peter Oliver, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion, 1781
  
  
  The same truth that guides the pen of the historian should govern the pencil
  of the artist.
  
  
  —Benjamin West to John Galt, ca. 1816
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![image](Images/common.jpg) Contents ![image](Images/common1.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Preface](09_Preface.xhtml#pre)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER ONE:](10_Chapter01.xhtml#c1)
  
  
  [The Provincial Eye](10_Chapter01.xhtml#c1)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER TWO:](11_Chapter02.xhtml#c2)
  
  
  [A Dazzling of Scarlet](11_Chap