Table of Contents
Note to the Reader vii
Prologue xi
Part I The Bookseller and the General
1 Fort Ticonderoga/Lake George 2
2 Boston on Edge 6
3 His Excellency 15
4 The Rebel Bookseller 27
5 The Frustrated General 38
6 The Bookseller Meets the General 42
7 The Heights of Dorchester 50
Part II The Expedition
8 Starting Out 56
9 On to New York and Albany 62
10 Washington on Ice 69
11 Fort George 74
12 Fort Ticonderoga 81
13 The Hell of Lake George 87
14 The Man Who Started the French and Indian War 94
15 A Noble Train 99
16 The Best Laid Plans 109
17 The Bad General 120
18 Heading Back Down 127
19 Crossing the Ice 132
20 The Life and Times of a Teamster 137
21 Cannon Down, Half Moon 142
22 The Third Column 150
23 The Albany 154
24 All the Kingdoms of the Earth 159
25 Common Sense 164
26 A Sinister Violence of Intention 169
27 The Devil's Staircase 173
28 Cannons in the Mud, Springfield 179
29 Deliverance 183
30 The Final Leg 187
Part III The Heights
31 Colonel of the Artillery 192
32 The Cannons of Ticonderoga 197
33 At Dawn's Light 201
34 The Prodigal Son Returns 207
35 The Unborn Millions 210
Epilogue 213
Acknowledgments 217
Notes 219
Bibliography 241
Index 247