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The following bibliography includes notable books concerning the American Revolutionary War. These books are listed in the bibliographies of books by prominent historians as shown in the footnotes.
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- ↑ Nelson, James L. (2008). George Washington's secret navy: how the American revolution went to sea. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-149389-5.
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- ↑ Garland, Joseph E. (2006). The fish and the falcon: Gloucester's resolute role in America's fight for freedom. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-007-5.
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- ↑ Gabriel, Michael P. (2002). Major general Richard Montgomery: the making of an American hero. Madison, NJ : London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-3931-3.
- ↑ "Canada & the American Revolution, 1774-1783 | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ↑ Miller, Nathan (1974). Sea of glory: the Continental Navy fights for independence, 1775-1783. New York: D. McKay Co. ISBN 978-0-679-50392-7.
- ↑ Selby, John E. (2007). The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783. Williamsburg, Va. : Charlottesville, Va: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ; Distributed by the University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-87935-233-2.
- 1 2 Alden, John Richard; Stephenson, Wendell Holmes (1976). The South in the revolution: 1763 - 1789. A history of the South : [in eleven volumes] / eds. Wendell Holmes Stephenson. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State Univ. Press [u.a.] ISBN 978-0-8071-0003-5.
- ↑ Wilson, David K. (2005). The southern strategy: Britain's conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-573-9.
- ↑ Huff, 22; Bobby Gilmer Moss, The Patriots in the Snow Campaign, 1775 (Blacksburg, SC: Scotia Hibernia Press, 2007), 18.
- ↑ Anderson, Mark R. (2013). The battle for the fourteenth colony: America's war of liberation in Canada, 1774-1776. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-61168-497-1.
- ↑ Russell, David Lee (2000). The American Revolution in the Southern colonies. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-0783-5.
- ↑ Wilson, David K. (2005). The southern strategy: Britain's conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-573-9.
- ↑ Russell, David Lee (2006). Oglethorpe and colonial Georgia: a history, 1733-1783. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-2233-3. OCLC 62888912.
- ↑ Field, Edward (1898). Esek Hopkins, commander-in-chief of the continental navy during the American Revolution, 1775 to 1778 : master mariner, politician, brigadier general, naval officer and philanthropist. Harvard University. Providence : Preston & Rounds Co.
- ↑ Brown, Gerald S.; Lanctot, Gustave; Cameron, Margaret M. (1968). "Canada and the American Revolution, 1774-1783". The Journal of Southern History. 34 (2): 294. doi:10.2307/2204675. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 2204675.
- ↑ Morison, Samuel Eliot (1999). John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-410-4.