George Washington's War

In Caricature and Print

Kenneth Baker

• Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781906502539
• eBook ISBN:
  9781909166820
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Art & Politics
• Index: History

A Revolutionary War history told through eighteenth-century illustrations: "Utterly absorbing" ( The Times, London).
 
Americans are steeped in the history of the American Revolution, but often the fog of myth shrouds the reality. In these pages, the path to war is starkly documented by British caricatures of politicians and generals—for the most part favorable to the Colonists. For George III, Lord North, and Britain, the war was a disaster that need not have happened. The problems of coping with a country five thousand miles away with a tradition of representative government, a free press, and a spirit of independence were just too much. But they, together with Generals Howe, Burgoyne, Cornwallis, and others, were mercilessly lampooned. Washington, the hero, is spared, although there are surprising and dark elements to the American victory illustrated here.
 
Using prints and caricatures from the period—some never before published—and drawing on his own experience in politics, Kenneth Baker provides vivid and memorable images that illustrate these extraordinary historical events.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One - The Path to Revolution 1763-1773
• Chapter Two - Friends and Enemies
• Chapter Three - 1773-1776 Boston
• Chapter Four - New York and New Jersey 1776
• Chapter Five - The Yankees Triumph or Burgoyne Beat 1777
• Chapter Six - The Germans and the French
• Chapter Seven - 1778 Impasse
• Chapter Eight - 1779
• Chapter Nine - The Generals
• Chapter Ten - American Forces
• Chapter Eleven - The British Army
• Chapter Twelve - 1780-1781 The Fugitive War in the South
• Chapter Thirteen - ‘The World Turned Upside Down’
• Chapter Fourteen - 1782 — The Piss of Peace
• EPILOGUE - King George
• INDEX