American Northern Theater Army in 1776

Douglas R. Cubbison is a military historian and curator with the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He writes about social, military and American history.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface. “A Desperate Rush Which Cost Too Many Brave Men” : Assault on Quebec, December 30, 1775      1. “Scarcely Anything to Support Nature”: Invasion of Canada to December 30, 1775      2. “A Mere Ghost of an Army”: Winter Before the Lady of the Snows, January–May 1776      3. “His Majesty’s Deluded Subjects”: British Arrival, May 6, 1776      4. “Enough to Make Anybody’s Blood Crawl”: Failure of American Leadership at the Affair at the Cedars, May 18 to 30, 1776      5. “Founded in Rashness and Executed with Timidity”: The American Attack on Three Rivers, June 7 to 11, 1776      6. “I Can Scarcely Imagine Any More Disastrous Scene”: The Destruction and Death of an American Army, June 1776      7. “General Gates Is Putting the Most Disordered Army That Ever Bore the Name into a State of Regularity and Defense”: Reconstitution at Ticonderoga, July to October 1776      8. “I Think We Shall Be Very Well Prepared for the British Army”: Gates Establishes a Fortified Position at Ticonderoga      9. “We Build a Thing Called a Gondola”: Creation of the American Advanced Guard, Skenesboro, July to September 1776      10. “The Enemys Fleet Attacked Ours with Great Fury”: Destruction of the American Advanced Guard on Lake Champlain, October 1776      11. “Our Appearance Was Indeed So Formidable”: British Advance and Withdrawal Before Ticonderoga, October 1776      12. “As Great Consequence as If They Had Been Defeated”: The Campaign Ends; Analysis and Conclusions      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

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