Women in the American Revolution /
Sudie Doggett Wike.
- vii, 272 pages : maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257) and index.
Prologue: George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg -- Founding mothers in the first days of revolution -- Correspondence committees, the Tea Party and coercive acts -- Siege of Boston and the Canada campaign -- New York and New Jersey campaigns -- Saratoga campaign, Ben Franklin and French aid -- Valley Forge, Monmouth Battle and Sullivan's Raid -- Regulators and Wataugans -- Pontiac's War, boundaries and treaties and Dunmore's War -- Transylvania, Great Bridge Battle and Kentucky County, Virginia -- Snow campaign, Moore's Creek, Sullivan's Island and the Cherokee War -- Northwest Territory, Chickamauga Expedition and mid-Tennessee -- Georgia invades Florida, and the Savannah and Augusta campaigns -- Charlestown campaign, Camden Battle and Fishing Creek -- Militiamen cross the Blue Ridge and face Ferguson in Tryon County -- Watauga, Kings Mountain and the journey home -- Cornwallis reverses course and confronts Greene in the south -- British and American strategy in the Virginia campaign -- The Virginia campaign and the American victory at Yorktown -- The last pockets of revolution and the Treaty of Paris.
"Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handling a range of jobs that were usually performed by men. The author focuses on the many key roles women filled in the struggle for independence, from farming to making saltpeter to spying"--