References: 1775 Battles and Skirmishes

© 2000 - 2002, 2010 - John K. Robertson


Many of the references below were compiled by the U.S. Army Center for Military History, and are part of a much more comprehensive bibliography of the American Revolution which is available online.


19 April 1775
Alden
Alden, John R. "Why the March to Concord?" American Historical Review, 49 (April 1944), pp. 446-454.

Andrews
Andrews, Joseph L., Jr. Revolutionary Boston, Lexington & Concord: The Shots Heard Round the World. Concord Guides Press, 1999.

A historical guide to the entire Boston, Lexington and Concord area.

Anonymous
Anonymous. "The First Gun of Lexington." Historical Magazine, 3 (May 1859), pp. 152-153.

Bogin
Bogin, Ruth. "'The Battle of Lexington': A Patriotic Ballard by Lemuel Haynes." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 42 (October 1985), pp. 499-506.

Brooks
Brooks, Victor The Boston Campaign : April 1775 - March 1776 (Great Campaigns). Combined Books, 1999.

Coburn
Coburn, Frank. The Battle of April 19, 1775. 2d Edition. Lexington, MA: Lexington Historical Society, 1922. [1st Edition privately printed in Lexington, 1912.] Available online

Curtis
Curtis, George William. "An Oration on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Fight at Concord, April 19, 1775." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 29 (October 1875), pp. 380-395. Available online

Dana
Dana, Richard H., Jr. "An Oration on the One-Hundreth Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 29 (October 1875), pp. 367-380. Available online

Fischer
Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride. Oxford Univ Press, 1995.

French
French, Allan. The Day of Lexington and Concord, the Nineteenth of April, 1775. Boston: Little, Brown, 1925. Available online

French
French, Allan. "The British Expedition to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1775." Military Affairs, 1 (Spring 1937), pp. 1-17.

Frothingham
Frothingham, Richard. History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill. 6th Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1903. Available online

Galvin
Galvin, John R. The Minute Men : The First Fight-Myths and Realities of the American Revolution. Brasseys Inc, 1996.

Hallahan
Hallahan, William H. The Day the American Revolution Began : 19 April 1775. Avon Books, 2000.

Knollenberg
Knollenberg, Bernhard. "Did Samuel Adams Provoke the Boston Tea Party and the Clash at Lexington?" Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 70 (October 1960), pp. 493-503.

Massachusetts Bay
Massachusetts Bay, Provincial Congress. A Narrative of the Excursions and Ravages of the King's Troops Under the command of General Gage, On the nineteeth of April, 1775. Together with the Depositions Taken by Order of Congress, to Support the Truth of It. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1775.

Morrissey
Morrissey, Brendan. Boston : 1775 : The Shot Heard Around the World (Campaign, No 37). Osprey Pub Co., 1995.
Mott
Mott, Frank Luher. "The Newspaper Coverage of Lexington and Concord." New England Quarterly, 17 (December 1944), pp. 489-505.

Murdock
Murdock, Harold. The Nineteenth of April, 1775. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923.

Murdock
Murdock, Harold. "Historic Doubts on the Battle of Lexington." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 49 (May 1916), pp. 361-386. Available online

Murdock
Murdock, Harold. "Earl Percy's Retreat to Boston on the Nineteenth of April, 1775." Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 24 (April 1921), pp. 257-292.

Murdock
Murdock, Harold. "The British at Concord--April 19, 1775." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 56 (November 1922), pp. 70-94.

Muzzey
Muzzey A[rtemas] B[owers]. The Battle of Lexington; with personal recollections of men engaged in it. Boston: Williams, 1877.

Muzzey
Muzzey A[rtemas] B[owers]. "The Battle of Lexington." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 31 (October 1877), pp. 377-393. [Reprint: Magazine of History, 9 (April 1909), pp. 221-240.]

Paige
Paige, Lucius P., ed. "Descriptions of the Battle of Lexington, by a British Officer." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 25 (March 1890), pp. 391-396 [2d Ser., vol 5]

Phinney
Phinney, Elias. History of the Battle of Lexington on the morning of the 19th April, 1775. Boston: Phelps and Farnham, 1825. Available online

Robbins
Robbins, Jerry. Battle Road. The Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air, 1995.

Scheide
Scheide, John. "The Lexington Alarm." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 50 (January 1940), pp. 49-79.

Seybolt
Seybolt, Robert Francis. "A Note on the Casualties of April 19, and June 17, 1775." New England Quarterly, 4 (October 1931), pp. 525-528.

Sutherland & Pope
Sutherland, William, and Richard Pope. Late News of the Excursions and Ravages of the King's Troops on the nineteenth of April 1775 as set forth in the Narrative of Lt. William Sutherland of His Majesty's 38th Regiment of Foot and of Richard Pope of the 47th Regiment. Edited by Harold Murdock. Cambridge, MA: Hardvard University Press, 1927.

Tourtellot
Tourtellot, Arthur B. A Bibliography of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. New York: Privately printed, 1959.

Tourtellot
Tourtellot, Arthur B. Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution {Originally: "William Diamond's Drum"}. W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Tyler
Tyler, J.E., ed. "An Account of Lexington in the Rockingham Mss. at Sheffield." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 10 (January 1953), pp. 99-107.



Arnold's Expedition
Allen
Allen, William. "Account of Arnold's Expedition." Maine Historical Society Collections, 1 (1831), pp. 347-416.

Anonymous
"Journal of the Most Remarkable Occurrences in Quebec since Arnold Appeared Before the Town on the 14th November, 1775." Historical Documents of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 7th Ser., (Quebec: Daily Telegraph Job Printing House, 1905), pp. 93-154. Available online

Arnold
Arnold, Benedict. "Arnold's Letters on his Expedition to Canada in 1775." Maine Historical Society Collections, 1 (1831), pp. 341-346.

Banks
Banks, Charles E. "Arnold's Expedition to Quebec in 1775." Magazine of History, 18 (February-March 1914), pp. 88-90.

Codman
Codman, John. Arnold's Expedition to Quebec. 2d Edition. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1902. Available online

Dearborn
Dearborn, Henry. "Journal kept by Capt. Henry Dearborne, of the Proceedings, and Particular occurrences which happened within my knowledge, to the Troops, under the Command of Colonel Benedicte Arnold, in the year 1775 Which Troops were detached from the American Army Lying before the Town of Boston, for the purpose of marching to, and taking possession of Quebec." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 22 (April 1886), pp. 275-305. [2d Ser., Vol 2.]

Haskell
Haskell, Caleb. Caleb Haskell's Diary, May 5-May 30, 1776: A Revolutionary Soldier's Record before Boston and With Arnold's Quebec Expedition. Edited by Lothrop Withington. Newburyport, MA: W.H. House & Co., 1881. Available online

Henry
Henry, John Joseph. Account of Arnold's Campaign Against Quebec and the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes who Traversed the Wilderness of Maine from Cambridge to the St. Lawrence in the Autumn of 1775. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1877. Available online [Originally published as An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes, who Traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign Against Quebec in 1775. Lancaster, PA: 1812. Reprinted in Pennsylvania Archives, 2d. Ser., 15 (1893), pp. 59-191.]

Meigs
Meigs, Return Jonathan. Journal of the Expedition Against Quebec, Under the Command of Col. Benedict Arnold, in the Year 1775, by Maj. Return J. Meigs. Edited by Charles I. Bushnell. New York: Privately printed, 1864.

Mills
Mills, William Howard. "Benedict Arnold's March to Canada." Magazine of American History, 13 (February 1885), pp. 143-154. Available online

Roberts
Roberts, Kenneth, comp. March to Quebec: Journals of the Members of Arnold's Expedition. 4th Edition. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1940. [1st Edition New York: Doubleday, 1938.]

Smith
Smith, Justin H. Arnold's March from Cambridge to Quebec; a Critical Study, together with a reprint of Arnold's Journal. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. Available online

Ware
Ware, Joseph. "A Journal of a March from Cambridge on an Expedition against Quebec, in Benedict Arnold's Detachment, Sept. 13, 1775." Edited by Justin Winsor. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 6 (April 1852), pp. 129-145. Available online

Wild
Wild, Ebenezer. "A Journal of a March from Cambridge, on an Expedition against Quebec, in Benedict Arnold's Detachment, Sept. 13, 1775." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 22 (April 1886), pp. 265-275. [2d Ser., Vol 2.]



Bixby
Bixby, Samuel. "Diary of Samuel Bixby." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historcal Society, 14 (March 1876), pp. 285-298. Available online

Boatner
Boatner, Mark M, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994.

Bunker Hill
Adams
Adams, Charles Francis. "The Battle of Bunker Hill." American Historical Review, 1 (April 1896), pp. 401-413. Available online

Brooks
Brooks, Victor The Boston Campaign : April 1775 - March 1776 (Great Campaigns). Combined Books, 1999.

Dawson
Dawson, Henry B. "Bunker's Hill." Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 3 (June 1868), pp. 321-344.

Dearborn
Dearborn, Henry. An Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Written for the Port Folio, at the Request of the Editor. Philadelphia: Harrison Hall, 1818. Available online [Reprint: Historical Magazine, 8(August 1864), pp. 267-272.]

Devens
Devens, Charles. "An Oration on the One-Hundreth Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 29 (October 1875), pp. 395-416.

Drake
Drake, Samuel Adams. Bunker Hill: The Story Told in Letters from the Battle Field by Britsh Officers Engaged. Boston: Nichols and Hall, 1875. Available online

Fleming
Fleming, Thomas J. Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1960.

Frothingham
Frothingham, Richard. History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill. 6th Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1903. Available online

Frothingham
Frothingham, Richard. "Bunker Hill." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 14 (June 1875), pp. 53-98.

Green
Green, Samuel A. "American Prisoners Taken at the Battle of Bunker Hill." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 42 (April 1888), pp. 168-169.

Hatch
Hatch, Robert McConnell. "New Hampshire at Bunker Hill." Historical New Hampshire, 30 (Winter 1975), pp. 215-220.

Ketchum
Ketchum, Richard M. Decisive Day : The Battle for Bunker Hill {Originally: The Battle for Bunker Hill}. Owl Books, 1999.

Knollenberg
Knollenberg, Bernhard. "Bunker Hill Re-viewed: A Study in the Conflict of Historical Evidence." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 72 (1957-1960), pp. 84-100.

Morse
Morse, Charles H. "Officers Who Were in the Battle of Bunker's (Breed's) Hill, June 17, 1775." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 27 (April 1873), pp. 121-122.

Murdock
Murdock, Harold. Bunker Hill: Notes and Queries on a Famous Battle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927.

Murdock
Murdock, Harold, ed. "Letter of J. Waller on Bunker Hill, 1775." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 58 (October 1924), pp. 84-87.

Parker
Parker, Francis J. "Could General Putnam Command at Bunker Hill?" New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 31 (October 1877), pp. 403-413.

Prescott
Prescott, William. "Judge Prescott's Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill [With Accompanying Documents]." Edited by Richard Frothingham. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 14 (June 1875), pp. 68-102.

Quincy
Quincy, J.P., ed. "Letters relating to the Battle of Bunker Hill." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 11 (February 1870), pp. 325-327.

Seybolt
Seybolt, Robert Francis. "A Note on the Casualties of April 19, and June 17, 1775." New England Quarterly, 4 (October 1931), pp. 525-528.

Sumner
Sumner, William H. "Reminiscences Relating to General Warren and Bunker Hill." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 12 (April, July 1858), pp. 113-222, 225-230.

Withington
Withington, Robert, ed. "A French Comment on the Battle of Bunker Hill." New England Quarterly, 22 (June 1949), pp. 235-240.

Worcester
Worcester, Samuel T. "New Hampshire Soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill." New Hampshire Historical Society Proceedings, 1 (1872-1888), pp. 353-364.



Desmarais
Desmarais, Norman. The Guide to the American Revolutionary War In Canada and New England: Battles, Raids, and Skirmishes. Ithaca, NY: Busca, Inc. 2009.

Goold
Goold, William. "The Burning of Falmouth (Now Portland) Maine, By a British Squadron, in 1775." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 27 (July 1873), pp. 256-266.

Invasion of Canada
Aimone & Aimone
Aimone, Alan C., and Barbara A. Aimone. "'Brave Bostonnians': New Yorkers' Roles in the Winter Invasion of Canada." Military Collector and Historian, 36 (Winter 1984), pp. 134-150.

Anonymous
Anonymous. An Authentic Narrative of the facts Relating to the Exchange of Prisoners Taken at the Cedars; Supported by the Testimonials of His Majesty's Officers. London: T. Cadell, 1777. Available online

Bredenberg
Bredenberg, Oscar R. "The Royal Savage." Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 12 (September 1966), pp. 128-149.

Caldwell
Caldwell, Henry. "The Invasion of Canada, in 1775." Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 2 (August 1867), pp. 97-103.

Foucher
Foucher, Antoine. "Journal tenu pendant le siège du fort Saint-Jean, en 1775, par feu M. Foucher, ancien notaire de Montréal." Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, 40 (March, April 1934), pp. 135-159.

Hatch
Hatch, Robert McConnell. Thrust for Canada: The American Attempt on Quebec in 1775-1776. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

Huot
Huot, Lucien. Le Siége du Fort St. Jean en 1775. Saint Jean, P.Q.: Des presses a vapeur du Franco-Canadien, 1889. [Also published as Siege of the Fort St. Johns in 1775, translated by George H. Flint. St. Johns, P.Q.: New Publishing House, 1889.]

Smith
Smith, Justin H. Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony; Canada in the American Revolution. 2 vols. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. Online: vol 1 Online: vol 2

Stanley
Stanley, George Francis Gilman. Canada Invaded, 1775-1776. Toronto: Hakkert, 1973.

Stone
Stone, Edward Martin. "The Invasion of Canada in 1775." Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 6 (1867).

Turcotte
Turcotte, Louis P. Invasion du Canada et Siége de Québec en 1775-76. Quebec: Imprimerie A. Coté et Cie., 1876.

Verreau
Verreau, Hospice Anthelme Jean Baptiste, ed. Invasion du Canada. Collections de Mémoirs, Recueillis et Annotés par M. l'Abbé Verreau. 2 vols. Montreal: Eusebe Senécal, 1873.



Morrill
Morrill, Dan L. Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. Mount Pleasant, SC: The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1993.

Munn
Munn, David C. Battles and Skirmishes of the American Revolution in New Jersey. Trenton: Bureau of Geology and Topography, Department of Environmental Protection, 1976. Downloadable version.

NDAR
Clark, William B.; editor. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Volumes 1 through 3 cover 1775. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1964, 1966, 1968.

O'Kelley
O'Kelley, Patrick. Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas Volume 1, 1771-1779. Bangor, ME: Booklocker.com, Inc., 2004.

Selby
Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988.

Siege of Boston
Anonymous
Anonymous. "Camp Life in 1776--Siege of Boston." Historical Magazine, 8 (October 1864), pp. 326-332.

Barker
Barker, John, The British in Boston: Being the Diary of Lieutenant John Barker of the King's Own Regiment from November 15, 1774 to May 31, 1776; with Notes by Elizabeth Ellery Dana (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924) : 56-7.

Blake
Blake, Francis E. "The British Raid on Dorchester Neck, February 1776." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 53 (April 1899), pp. 177-185.

Fisher
Fisher, Horace N., ed. "Letters on the Siege of Boston." Magazine of History, 15 (January 1912), pp. 47-52.

Frothingham
Frothingham, Richard, ed. "Letters Illustrating the Siege of Boston." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 14 (March 1876), pp. 275-285.

Haraszti
Haraszti, Zoltan. "Besieging Boston with a Dwindling Army; The Last Stages of the Siege of Boston." More Books, 7 (May, September 1932), pp. 123-138, 219-228.

Henshaw
Henshaw, William. The Orderly Book of Colonel William Henshaw, of the American Army, April 20-Sep. 26, 1775. Including a Memoir by Emory Washburn, and Notes by Charles C. Smith. With Additions by Harriet E. Henshaw. Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1881. [Partially published: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 15 (October 1876), pp. 65-73.]

Manders
Manders, Eric L. "Notes on Troop Units in the Cambridge Army, 1775-1776." Military Collector and Historian, 23 (Fall 1971), pp. 69-74.

Stevens
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, ed. General Sir William Howe's Orderly Book at Charlestown, Boston and Halifax June 17, 1775 to 1776 26 May; to which is added the official abridgement of General Howe's correspondence with the English Government during the siege of Boston, and some military returns and now first printed from the original manuscripts. 1890. Reprint: Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1970. Available online>

Winslow
Winslow, Isaac. "A Loyalist in the Siege of Boston." Edited by Erving Winslow. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 56 (January 1902), pp. 48-54.



Siege of Quebec
Anonymous
Anonymous. "Journal of the Siege from 1st Dec., 1775 by an Artillery Officer, as his Duties Appeared to be Chiefly on the Ramparts and in the Batteries of Quebec." In Historical Documents of the the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 8th Ser. Quebec: Daily Telegraph Job Printing House, 1906, pp. 11-53.

Anonymous
Anonymous. "Military Journal, November 1775-May 1776; Chief Events in the Siege of Quebec: A Lively Account by a British Garrison Officer." New-York Historical Society Collections, 1881, pp.

Coffin
Coffin, Victor. The Province of Quebec and the Early American Revolution: A Study in English-American Colonial History. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1896. Available online>

Danford
Danford, Jacob. "Quebec Under Siege, 1775-1776: The 'Memorandums' of Jacon Danford." Edited by John F. Roche. Canadian Historical Review, 50 (March 1969), pp. 68-85.

Finlay?
[Finlay, Hugh?]. "Journal of the Siege and Blockade of Quebec by the American Rebels in Autumn 1775 and Winter 1776." In Historical Documents of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 4th Ser. Quebec: Dawson & Co., 1875), pp.

Jeffry
Jeffry, James. "Journal Kept in Quebec in 1775 by James Jeffry." Edited by William Smith. Essex Institute Historical Collections, 50 (April 1914), pp. 97-150.

Knowles
Knowles, James. "Journal of the Quebec Attack (Letter of James Knowles)." Magazine of History, 16 (May 1913), pp. 210-211.

MacLean
MacLean, Allen. "Arnold's Strength at Quebec." Military Collector and Historian, 29 (Autumn 1977), pp. 137-139.

Morison
Morison, George. "An Account of the Assault on Quebec, 1775." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 14 (1890), pp. 434-439.

Neatby
Neatby, Hilda. Quebec: The Revolutionary Age, 1760-1791. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966.

Porterfield
Porterfield, Charles. "Memorable Attack on Quebec, December 21 [sic], 1775: Diary of Colonel Charles Porterfield." Edited by Marcus J. Wright. Magazine of American History, 21 (April 1889), pp. 318-319.

Rivis
Rivas, R.G.L. "Sir William Grant and the Blockade of Quebec." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 20 (Summer 1941), pp. 101-104.

Whiteley
Whiteley, W.H. "The British Navy and the Siege of Quebec, 1775-1776." Canadian Historical Review, 61 (March 1980), pp. 3-27.

Würtele
Würtele, Fred C., ed. Blockade of Quebec in 1775-1776 By the American Revolutionists (Les Bastonnais). 1906. Reprint: Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1970.



Fort Ticonderoga
Arnold
Arnold, Benedict. Benedict Arnold's Regimental Memorandum Book Written While at Crown Point and Ticonderoga, 1775. Philadelphia: Collins, 1884. [Originally published in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 3 (1884), pp. 363-376. Available online ]

Arnold
Arnold, Benedict. "Benedict Arnold's Regimental Memorandum Book." Edited by John W. Krueger. Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 14 (Winter 1982), pp. 71-80.

French
French, Allen. The Taking of Ticonderoga in 1775: The British Story, a Study of Captors and Captives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928.

Spargo
Spargo, John. Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Co., 1926.

Todd
Todd, Willaim C. "Ethan Allen's Language at Ticonderoga." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 44 (April 1890), pp. 171-172.