"A history of the war that was caused by the Revolution." -- From the preface.

Volume 1 :The war in the North : -- Causes of the war -- Boston Port closed -- The two armies -- Lexington -- Concord -- The siege of Boston -- Ticonderoga -- Bunker Hill -- Washington takes command -- Dorchester and Falmouth -- The question of Canada -- Montreal -- Arnold's march to Quebec -- Quebec -- Washington in New York -- Long Island : the preliminaries -- Long Island : the battle -- Long Island : the retreat -- Kip's Bay -- Harlem heights -- Throg's Neck and Pelham -- White Plains -- Fort Washington -- The retreat through the Jerseys -- The crisis -- Trenton -- Princeton -- Morristown -- Maneuvers in New Jersey -- Head of elk -- Brandywine -- Philadelphia -- Germantown -- The forts on the Delaware -- Valcour Island -- Burgoyne's expedition -- Bennington -- Notes (volume 1)-- -- Maps : The Siege of Boston -- The Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17,1775 -- Arnold's route -- The Attack on Quebec, November, 1775, to May, 1776 -- The Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 -- The Westchester Campaign -- White Plains -- The Northern part of New Jersey -- The Battle of Trenton, December 26, 1776 -- Battles of Trenton and Princeton -- The Philadelphia campaign -- The Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777 -- The Battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777 -- Operations on the Delaware, October 8 - November, 1777 -- Action on Lake Champlain -- The battle of Bennington. Volume 2 -- The war in the North (continued) -- Stanwix and Oriskany -- Danbury -- Freeman's Farm -- Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery -- Bemis Heights -- Saratoga -- Valley Forge -- Barren Hill -- The race across the Jerseys -- Monmouth -- Newport -- Stony Point -- Paulus Hook -- The hard winter at Morristown -- Some minor conflicts in the norht, 1778-1781 -- Wyoming -- Mohawk Valley -- Sullivan's expedition -- The Indians strick back -- The war in the South : -- The seat of war in the South -- Charleston -- Georgia -- Savannah -- Charleston again -- Civil war in the South -- De Klab marches southward -- Gates takes command -- Camden -- After Camden -- King's Mountain -- Before Cowpens -- Cowpens -- Cornwallis pursues Morgan -- The retreat to the Dan -- Greene returns to North Carolina -- Guilford court house -- Cornwallis abandons the Carolinas -- Hobkirk's Hill -- Mopping up the Carolinas -- Ninety-six -- Eutaw Springs -- After Eutaw Springs -- The Dunmore raids -- George Rogers Clark and the west -- The ravaging of Virginia -- Washington resumes operations -- The Siege of Yorktown -- Notes (volume 2) -- Glossary -- Appendices : -- Ethan Allen's captivity -- The casualties at Long Island -- The feeling between Northern and Southern troops -- General Howe and Mrs. Murray -- The treachery of William Demont -- Arnold at Freeman's Farm -- Principal Authorities -- Index. -- Maps : St. Leger's route to Fort Stanwix -- Oriskany, August 6, 1777 -- Danbury Raid, April 25-26, 1777 -- First battle at Freeman's Farm, September 19, 1777 -- Plan of attack on Forts Clinton and Montgomery by the British Forces under Sir Henry Clinton -- Secon battle at Freeman's farm, called Battle of Bemis Heights, or of Stillwater, October 7, 1777 -- Lafayette at Barren Hill, May 20, 1778 -- Battle of Monmouth -- Siege of Newport, August, 1777 -- Stony Point, July 16, 1779 -- Paulus Hook, August 19, 1779 -- Seat of war in the Southern States, 1775-1781 -- The Battle of Sullivan's Island, June 28, 1776 -- Siege of Savannah, October 9, 1779 -- Siege of Charleston, March 29-May 12, 1780 -- The Battle of Camden, August 16, 1780 -- The Battle of King's Mountain -- The Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781 -- The Battle of Guilford, March 15, 1781 -- Battle of Hobkirk's Hill, April 25, 1781 -- Siege of Ninety-Six, May 22-June 19, 1781 -- The Battle of Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781 -- George Rogers Clark and the West -- Siege of Yorktown.