New Jersey and the Revolutionary War - 9780813507606

New Jersey and the Revolutionary WarAuthor(s): Alfred Bill\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813507606, 978-0813507606\nSynopsis\nThis is the complete account of New Jersey's important role in tile American Revolutionary War, as only the accomplished novelist and historian Alfred Hoyt Billcould tell [url] only does he survey the major military developments, but he also covers the social and economic effects or the war in New Jersey. Bill tellsthe story of the war and provides in-depth explanations of war-related problems-victory and defeat, Jerseymen defecting 10 the British, recruitment difficulties, troop discipline problems, the outbreak of disease and a smallpox epidemic-everything that led to the eventual surrender of Cornwallis.\n\n Billintroduces us to the people who were responsible for winning the war and shaping the future of our country, people such as George Washington, General Hugh Merc.