References: 1781 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.


Allyn
Allyn, Charles. The Battle of Groton Heights. Revised Edition. New London, CT: Charles Allyn, 1882.

Bannister
Bannister, Lieutenant Colonel John to Theodoric Bland, 16 May 1781, Bland Papers, Collection of the Director of Tourism and Museums, The City of Petersburg, VA.

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

Cann
Cann, Marvin L. "War in the Backcountry: The Siege of Ninety Six, May 22-June 19, 1781." South Carolina Historical Magazine, 72 (January 1971), pp. 1-14.

Charlottesville Raid
Dabney
Dabney, Virginius. "Jack Jouette's Ride." Magazine of Albemarle County History, 30 (1972), pp. 19-27.

Wylie
Wylie, John Cook. "Writings About Jack Jouette and Tarleton's Raid on Charlottesville in 1781." Magazine of Albemarle County History, 17 (1958-1959), pp. 49-56.

Wylie
Wylie, John Cook. "Daniel Boone's Adventures in Charlottesville in 1781: Some Incidents Connected with Tarleton's Raid." Magazine of Albemarle County History, 19 (1960-1961), pp. 5-18.



Cowpens
Babits
Babits, Lawrence E. A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Bass
Bass, Robert D. The Green Dragoon

Bearss
Bearss, Edwin C. Battle of Cowpens: A Documented Narrative and Troop Movement Maps . TN: Overmountain Press, 1996.

Buchanan
Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas . New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Davis
Davis, Burke. The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1962.

Fleming
Fleming, Thomas J. Cowpens: "Downright Fighting," The Story of Cowpens . Washington, DC: Superintendent of Documents, 1988.

Higginbotham
Higginbotham, Don. Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman. Chapek Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Moss
Moss, Bobby Gilmer. The Patriots at the Cowpens . Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1990.

Myers
Myers, Theodoras Baily, ed. Cowpens Papers: Being Correspondence of Genral Morgan and Prominent Actors. Charleston, SC: News and Courier Book Presses, 1881.

Pugh
Pugh, Robert Coplin. "The Cowpens Campaign and the American Revolution." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, 1951.

Rankin
Rankin, Hugh F. "Cowpens: Prelude to Yorktown." North Carolina Historical Review, 31 (July 1954), pp. 336-369.

Roberts
Roberts, Kenneth. The Battle of Cowpens: The Great Morale-Builder. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958.

Rockwell
Rockwell, E.F. "The Battle of Cow-Pens." Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 2 (July 1867), pp. 24-27.

Tarleton
Tarleton, Banastre. History of the Campaigns of 1780-1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America . London: T. Cadell, 1787.



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.

Ewald
Tustin, Joseph P. ed. Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal, Captain Johann Ewald. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1979.

Green Springs
Hatch
Hatch, Charles E., Jr. "The 'Affair Near James Island' (or, 'The Battle of Green Spring') July 6, 1781. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 53 (July 1945), pp. 172-196.

Lafayette
Lafayette, Marie du Motier, Marquis de. Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Published by His Family. 3 vols. London:Saunders & Otley, 1837. [6 vols., Paris H. Fournier aine, 1837-38.]

Wayne
Wayne, Anthony. "Anthony Wayne at Green Spring, 1781: His Account of the Action." Magazine of American History, 15 (February 1886), pp. 201-202.

Wayne
Either the bound volumes of Wayne's papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania or The Nathanael Greene Papers, which you can access online.



Holmes
Holmes, Jack D.L. "Alabama's Bloodiest Day of the American Revolution: Counterattack at The Village, January 7, 1781." Alabama Review, 29(July 1976), pp. 208-219.

Kinnaird
Kinnaird, Lawrence. "The Spanish Expedition Against Fort St. Joseph in 1781, A New Interpretation." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 19 (September 1932), pp. 173-191.

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.

O'Kelley
O'Kelley, Patrick. Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas Volume 3, 1781. LaVergne, TN: Booklocker.com, Inc., 2005.

Parker
Parker, J.C. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, v. 83, no. 2, April 1975, pp. 161 and 170.

Pensacola, Siege of
Cubberly
Cubberly, Fred. "Fort George (St. Michael), Pensacola." Florida Historical Quarterly, 6 (october 1928), pp. 220-234.

Farmar
Farmar, Robert. "Bernardo de Galvez's Siege of Pensacola in 1781 (As related in Robert Farmar's Journal)." Edited by James A. Padgett. Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 26 (April 1943), pp. 311-329.

Faye
Faye, Stanley. "British and Spanish Fortifications of Pensacola, 1781-1821." Florida Historical Quarterly, 20 (January 1942), pp. 277-292.

Galvez
Galvez, Bernardo de. "Bernardo de. Galvez's Combat Diary for the Battle of Pensacola, 1781." Edited by Maury Baker and Margaret Bissler Haas. Florida Historical Quarterly, 56 (October 1977), pp. 176-199.

Galvez
Galvez, Bernardo de. "Diary of the Operations Against Pensacola." Translated by Gaspar de Cusachs. Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 1 (January 1917), pp. 44-84.

Haarmann
Haarmann, Albert W. "The Siege of Pensacola: An Order of Battle." Florida Historical Quarterly, 44 (January 1966), pp. 193-199.

Lackey
Lackey, Robert J., ed. "The Siege of Pensacola in 1781." Historical Magazine, 4 (June 1976), pp. 166-172.

Rush
Rush, Nixon Orwin. The Battle of Pensacola March 9 to May 8, 1781: Spain's Final Triumph Over Great Britainin the Gulf of Mexico. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University, 1966.

Servies
Servies, James A., ed. The Log of the H.M.S. Mentor, 1780-1781: A New Account of the British Navy at Pensacola. Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1982.

Worcester
Worcester, Donald E. translator. "Miranda's Diary of the Siege of Pensacola, 1781." Florida Historical Quarterly, 29 (January 1951), pp. 163-196.



Purcell and Burg
Purcell, L.E. and Burg, D.F. eds. The World Almanac of the American Revolution. New York: Pharo Books, 1992.

Simcoe
Simcoe, John Graves. Simcoe's Military Journal: A History of the Operations of a Partisan Corps, called The Queen's Rangers. New York: Bartlett & Wellford. 1844

Wallace
Wallace, L.A., Jr. "The Battery at Hoods" in Virginia Cavalcade Magazine, 23 (Summer 1973), pp.38-47.

Ward and Greer
Ward, H.M. and Greer, H.E., Jr. Richmond During the Revolution. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1977.

Yorktown
Adams
Adams, Randolph G. "A View of Cornwallis' Surrender at Yorktown." American Historical Review, 37 (October 1931), pp. 25-49.

Arthur
Arthur, Robert. "Concentration Before Yorktown in 1781." Military Engineer, 48 (September-October 1954), pp. 375-377.

Arthur
Arthur, Robert. "The Siege of Yorktown--1781." Military Engineer, 48 (November-December 1954), pp. 448-451.

Aussaresses
Aussaresses, Paul. "L'Artillerie Française au siege de Yorktown (1781)." Revue Historique de L'Armée, 26 (#2, 1970), pp. 34-42

Burne
Burne, A.H. "Cornwallis at Yorktown." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 17 (Summer 1938), pp. 71-76.

Butler
Butler, Richard. "General Richard Butler's Journal of the Siege of Yorktown." Historical Magazine, 8 (March 1864), pp. 102-112.

Calderhead
Calderhead, Willaim. "Prelude to Yorktown: A Critical Week in a Major Campaign." Maryland Historical Magazine, 77 (June 1982), pp. 123-135.

Chadwick
Chadwick, French Ensor, ed. The Graves Papers and Other Documents Relating to the Naval Operations of the Yorktown Campaign July to October 1781. New York: Naval Historical Society, 1916.

Chidsey
Chidsey, Donald Barr. Victory at Yorktown. New York: Crown Publishers, 1962.

Collins
Collins, James L., Jr. "Irish Participation at Yorktown." Irish Sword, 15 (Summer 1982), pp. 3-10.

Cugnac
Cugnac, Gaspar Jean Marie René, comte de. Yorktown (1781) Trois mois d'opérations combinées sur terre et sur mar dans une guerre de coalition. Nancy, Paris, and Strasbourg: Imprimerie Berger-Levrault, 1932.

Cutter
Cutter, Abram E. "Surrender of Cornwallis." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 25 (July 1871), pp. 270-271.

Davis
Davis, Burke. The Campaign that Won America: The Story of Yorktown. New York: Dial Press, 1970.

Devereux
Devereux, Eugene, ed. "Extracts from Original Letters Relating to the War of Independence and Cornwallis' Capitulation at Yorktown." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 11 (1887), pp. 333-337.

Eckenrode
Eckenrode, H.J. The Story of the Campaign and Siege of Yorktown. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931.

Fleming
Fleming, Thomas J. Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963.

Gallatin
Gallatin, Gaspard de. Journal of the Siege of York-town. Translated by the French Department of the College of William and Mary. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931.

Hale
Hale, Richard W. "New Light on the Naval Side of Yorktown." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 71 (1953-1957), pp. 124-132.

Hatch
Hatch, Charles E., Jr. "Gloucester Point in the Siege of Yorktown, 1781." William and Mary Quarterly, 2d Ser., 20 (April 1940), pp. 265-284.

Hatch & Pitkin
Hatch, Charles E., Jr., and Thomas M. Pitkin., eds. Yorktown, climax of the revolution. Washington: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1941.

Johnston
Johnston, H.P. The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Cornwallis. New York, 1881; reprint Eastern Acorn Press, 1981.

Landers
Landers, H.L. The Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown, 1781. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931.

Lutnick
Lutnick, Solomon N. "The Defeat at Yorktown: A View from the British Press." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 72 (October 1964), pp. 471-478.

Morrisey & Hook
Morrisey, Brendan, a nd Adam Hook (Illustrator). Yorktown 1781 : The World Turned Upside Down (Campaign Series). Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997.

Patton
Patton, Jacob Harris. Yorktown: a compendious account of the campaign of the allied French and American forces, resulting in the surrender of Cornwallis and the close of the American Revolution; the succeeding events, to the treat of peace; and the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the surrender at Yorktown. Edited by W. Stitt Robinson, Jr. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1953.

Patton
Patton, Jacob Harris. "The Campaign of the Allies: The Surrender of Lord Charles Cornwallis." Magazine of American History, 7 (October 1881), pp. 241-269.

Reickley
Reickley, John A. "Yorktown: The Bridge." Military Review, 61 (October 1981), pp. 15-22.

Riley
Riley, Edward M. "Yorkown During the Revolution." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 57 (1949), pp. 22-43, 176-188, 274-285.

Sands
Sands, John O. Yorktown's Captive Fleet. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia for the Mariner's Museum, 1983.

Sands
Sands, John O. "Sea Power at Yorktown: The Archeology of the Captive Fleet." Ph.D. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1980.

Shy
Shy, John, ed. "Yorktown 1781: Personalties and Documents." Tocqueville Review, 3 (Fall 1981), pp. 249-348.

Stevens, B.
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, ed. The Campaign in Virginia 1781. An exact Reprint of Six rare Pamphlets on the Clinton-Cornwallis Controversy with very numerous important Unpublished portions of the letters in their Appendixes added from the Original Manuscripts. 2 vols. London: Privately printed, 1888.

Stevens, J.
Stevens, John Austin. "The Allies at Yorktown 1781." Magazine of American History, 6 (January 1881), pp.1-55.

Thayer
Thayer, Theodore. Yorktown, campaign of strategic options. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1975.

Trimble
Trimble, K.W. "Some Old Yorktown Maps." Military Engineer, 23 (September-October 1931), pp. 439-443.

Trumbull
Trumbull, Jonathan, Jr. "Minutes of Occurrences respecting the Seige[sic] and Capture of York in Virginia, extracted from the Journal of Colonel Jonathan Trumbull, Secretary to the General, 1781." Edited by Charles Deane. Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 14 (April 1876), pp. 331-338.

Trusty
Trusty, Lance. "War by the Book: The Defense of Yorktown, 1781." Indiana Academy of Social Sciences Proceedings, 11 (1976), pp. 111-125.

Tucker
Tucker, St. George. "St. George Tucker's Journal of the Siege of Yorktown, 1781." Edited by Edward M. Riley. William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 5 (July 1948), pp. 375-395.

Wright
Wright, John W. "Notes on the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 with Special Reference to the Conduct of a Siege in the Eighteenth Century." William and Mary Quarterly, 2d Ser., 12 (October 1932), pp. 229-249.