References: 1776 Battles and Skirmishes

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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.


Abbatt
Abbatt, William. The Battle of Pell's Point (or Pelham), October 18, 1776. Being the Story of a Stubborn Fight. New York: William Abbatt, 1901.

Allbee
Allbee, Burton H. "The Memory of Fort Lee." Magazine of History, 6 (September 1907), pp. 175-181.

Billias
Billias, George A. "Pelham Bay: A Forgotten Battle." New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 42 (January 1958), pp. 20-38.

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

Carleton's Campaign
Anonymous
Anonymous. "A Journal of Carleton's and Burgoyne's Campaigns." Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 11 (December 1964; September 1965), pp. 234-269, 306-335; 12 (March 1966), pp. 5-62.

Baxter
Baxter James Phinney, ed. The British Invasion from the North. The Campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne from Canada, 1776-1777. With the Journal of Lieut. William Digby, of the 53d, or Shropshire Regiment of Foot. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1887.

Beebe
Beebe, Lewis. Journal of Lewis Beebe A Physician on the Campaign Against Canada, 1776. Edited by Frederick R. Kirkland. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935. [Originally published: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 59 (October 1935), pp. 321-361.]

Bowler
Bowler, R. Arthur. "Sir Guy Carleton and the Campaign of 1776 in Canada." Canadian Historical Review, 55 (June 1974), pp. 131-140.

Carroll
Carroll, Charles. Journals of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, During His Visit to Canada in 1776, As One of the Commissioners From Congress, With a Memoir and Notes. Edited by Brantz Mayer. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, 1876.

Irvine
Irvine, William. "Gen. Irvine's Journal of the Canadian Camapign, 1776." Edited by W.A. Irvine. Historical Magazine, 6 (April 1862), pp. 115-117.

Jones
Jones, Charles Henry. History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776, From the Death of Montgomery to the Retreat of the British Army Under Sir Guy Carleton. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1882.

Nelson
Nelson, Paul David. "Guy Carleton versus Benedict Arnold: The Campaign of 1776 in Canada and on Lake Champlain." New York History, 57 (July 1976), pp. 339-366.

Robbins
Robbins, Ammi Ruhumah. Journal of Reverend Ammi R. Robbins, a Chaplian in the American Army, in the Northern Campaign of 1776. New Haven, CT: Hamlen, 1850.



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

Eller
Eller, E. M., ed. Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution. Tidewater Publishers; 1981.

Fort Washington
Bolton
Bolton, Reginald Pelham. Fort Washington. New York: Empire State Society, 1902.

Cadwalader
Cadwalader, Lambert. "Letter of Lambert Cadwalader to Timothy Pickering on the Capture of Fort Washington." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 25 (1901), pp. 259-262.

DeLancey
DeLancey, Edward Floyd. The Capture of Mount Washington November 16th, 1776, the Result of Treason. New York: New-York Historical Society, 1877.

DeLancey
DeLancey, Edward Floyd. "Mount Washington and Its Capture on the 16th of November, 1776." Magazine of American History, 1 (February 1877), pp. 65-90.



Harlem Heights
Emmet
Emmet, Thomas Addis. "The Battle of Harlem Heights." Magazine of History, 4 (September 1906), pp. 125-134.

Johnston
Johnston, Henry P. Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776. New York: Macmillan Co., 1897.

Katcher
Katcher, Philip. "'They Behaved Like Soldiers': The Third Virginia Regiment at Harlem Heights." Virginia Cavalcade, 26 (Autumn 1976), pp. 64-70.

Stevens
Stevens, John Austin. "The Battle of Harlem Plains." Magazine of American History, 4 (May 1880), pp. 351-375.

Stevens
Stevens, John Austin. "The New Version of the Battle of Harlem Plains." Magazine of American History, 6 (April 1881), pp. 260-263.



Hempstead
Hempstead, Stephen. "Attempt to Burn the British Frigates in the North River, in July, 1776." Historical Magazine, Supplement 3 (1866), pp. 84-86.

Koke
Koke, Richard J. "Forcing the Hudson River Passage, October 9, 1776." New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 36 (Ocober 1952), pp. 459-466.

Koke
Koke, Richard J. "The Struggle for the Hudson: The British Naval Expedition Under Captain Hyde Parker and Captain James Wallace, July 12-August 18, 1776." New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 40 (April 1956), pp. 114-175.

Long Island
Adams
Adams, Charles F. "The Battle of Long Island." American Historical Review, 1 (July 1896), pp. 650-670.

Atlee
Atlee, Samuel John. "Col. Atlee's Journal of the Battle of Long Island, August 26, 1776." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2d Ser., 1 (1879), pp. 509-516.

Calderhead
Calderhead, William L. "British Naval Failure at Long Island: A Lost Opportunity in the American Revolution." New York History, 57 (July 1976), pp. 321-338.

Collier
Collier, George. "'To My Inexpressible Astonishment': Admiral Sir George Collier's Observations on the Battle of Long Island." Edited by Louis L. Tucker. New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 48 (October 1964), pp. 293-306.

Field
Field, Thomas W. The Battle of Long Island, with Connected Preceding Events, and the Subsequent American Retreat. Brooklyn, NY: Long Island Historical Society, 1869 [Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society, 2 (1869).]

Johnston
Johnston, Henry P. Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn Including a New and Circumstantial Account of the Battle of Long Island and the Loss of New York, with a Review of events to the Close of the Year. Brooklyn, NY: Long Island Historical Society, 1876.



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
Naval Documents of the American Revolution. William B. Clark, editor, volumes 3 & 4. William J. Morgan, editor, volumes 5-7. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1968-1976. Volumes 3 through 7 cover 1776.

New York
Bliven
Bliven, Bruce, Jr. Battle for Manhattan. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1955.

Bliven
Bliven, Bruce, Jr. Under the Guns. New York: 1775-1776. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Bolton
Bolton, Reginald Pelham. "The Fighting Around New York City In 1776." Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 8 (January 1927), pp. 49-52.

Johnston
Johnston, Henry P. Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn Including a New and Circumstantial Account of the Battle of Long Island and the Loss of New York, with a Review of events to the Close of the Year. Brooklyn, NY: Long Island Historical Society, 1876.

Manders
Manders, Eric I. "Notes on Troop Units in the Army at New York City, 1776." Military Collector and Historian, 26 (Summer 1974), pp. 86-97.

Paltsits
Paltsits, Victor H. "The Jeopardy of Washington, September 15, 1776." New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 32 (October 1948), pp. 253-268.



Occupation of New York
Barck
Barck, Oscar Theodore. New York City During the War for Independence with Special Reference to the Period of British Occupation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.

Fish
Fish, Nicholas. "The Military Occcupation of New York, By the British, September, 1776." Edited by Hamilton Fish. Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 3 (January 1868), pp. 33-34.

Jones
Jones, Thomas. History of New York During the Revolutionary War, and of The Leading Events in the Other Colonies at that Period, by Thomas Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province. Edited by Edwrad Floyd DeLancey. 2 vols. New York: New-York Historical Society, 1870.

Schaukirk
Schaukirk, Ewald Gustav. Occupation of New York City by the British. Edited by A.A.Reinke. New York: Arno Press, 1969.



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.

Trenton
Burgoyne
Burgoyne, Bruce E. The Trenton Commanders: Johann Gottlieb Rall and george washington as noted in Hessian Diaries. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1996.
Dwyer
Dwyer, William H. The Day is Ours! November 1776-January 1777: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. New York: Viking Press, 1983.

Fast
Fast, Howard. The Crossing. Ibooks, 1999.

Haven
Haven, Charles Chauncey. A New Historic Manual Concerning the Three Battles at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey, During the War for American Independence, in 1776 and 1777. Trenton, NJ: W.T. Nicholson, 1871.

Haven
Haven, Charles Chauncey. "The Battles of Trenton and Princeton." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 9 (January 1861), pp. 67-70.

Reed
Reed, Joseph. "General Joseph Reed's Narrative of the Movements of the American Army in the Neighborhood of Trenton in he Winter of 1776-77." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 8 (1884), pp. 391-402.

Rodney
Rodney, Thomas. Diary of Captain Thomas Rodney, 1776-1777. With an introd. by Caesar A. Rodney. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974. reprint of 1888 ed. published by the Historical Society of Delaware, as no 8 of the Delaware Historical Society Papers.

Smith
Smith, Samuel S. The Battle of Trenton. Monmouth Beach, NJ: Philip Freneau Press, 1965.

Stryker
Stryker, William S. Battles of Trenton and Princeton. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898.



Valcour Island
Bredenberg
Bredenberg, Oscar R. "The American Champlain Fleet, 1775-1777." Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 12 (September 1968), pp.

De Angelis
De Angelis, Pascal "With Benedict Arnold at Valcour Island: The Diary of Pascal De Angelis." Edited by Charles M. Snyder. Vermont History, New Ser., 42 (Summer 1974), pp. 195-200.

Folsom
Folsom, William R. "The Battle of Valcour Island." Vermont Quarterly, New Ser., 19 (July 1951), pp. 133-146.

Knox
Knox, Robert. "Dr. Robert Knox's Account Of The Battle of Valcour, October 11-13, 1776." Edited by J. Rober Maguire. Vermont History, 46 (Summer 1978), pp. 141-150.

Nelson
Nelson, Paul David. "Guy Carleton versus Benedict Arnold: The Campaign of 1776 in Canada and on Lake Champlain." New York History, 57 (July 1976), pp. 339-366.

Palmer
Palmer, Peter S. Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776. Plattsburg, NY: Lake Shore Press, 1876.

Watson
Watson, W.C. "Arnold's Retreat After the Battle of Valcour." Magazine of American History, 6 (June 1881), pp. 414-417.



Wrike
Wrike, P.J. The Governor's Island. Lively, VA: Brandywine Publishers, 1993.