Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments viii
Introduction xxi
Dramatis Personae xxviii
Chapter 1 The 1777 Campaign Takes Shape 1
Chapter 2 Northern New Jersey: Preliminaries, January - June 1777 20
Chapter 3 Northern New Jersey: To Ships, June - July, 1777 43
Chapter 4 To Sea and the Delaware: July 1777 70
Chapter 5 To Sea and the Chesapeake: August 1-25, 1777 92
Chapter 6 To Pennsylvania & First Contact: August 25 - September 2, 1777 115
Chapter 7 To the Brandywine: September 3-10, 1777 133
Chapter 8 The Continental Army: September 10, 1777 156
Chapter 9 The British Army: September 10, 1777 180
Chapter 10 The Eve of Battle: September 10, 1777 202
Chapter 11 The Battle Begins: Morning, September 11, 1777 220
Chapter 12 Mid-Day Lull: September 11, 1777 246
Chapter 13 The British Assault Birmingham Hill: Afternoon, September 11, 1777 275
Chapter 14 The British Assault Stirling and Stephen: Afternoon, September 11, 1777 299
Chapter 15 Knyphausen Assaults Chads's Ford: Evening, September 11, 1777 323
Chapter 16 Nathanael Greene Makes a Stand: Evening, September 11, 1777 343
Chapter 17 The Aftermath of Battle: September 12-16, 1777 370
Epilogue 392
Appendix A The Battle of the Brandywine Order of Battle 405
Appendix B Was the Earliest American Flag Carried into Battle at Cooch's Bridge and/or the Brandywine? 411
Appendix C Where did Lafayette Sleep? 413
Appendix D Thomas Burke's Attack Against John Sullivan's Battlefield Performance, and Sullivan's Defense 415
Appendix E The Ferguson Rifles after the Battle of the Brandywine 428
Appendix F The Main Characters, Thereafter 431
Appendix G A History of the Battlefield: Commemoration and Preservation 439
Appendix H The Use of Cavalry and Artillery at Brandywine 446
Bibliography 451
Index 468