Research Catalog

Title

Key to the northern country : the Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution / edited by James M. Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, and Andrew Villani.

Publication

Albany : Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, Albany, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, James M., 1947 June 28-
• Pryslopski, Christopher, 1974-
• Villani, Andrew, 1986-

Description

xix, 307 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 28 cm.

Summary

"The Hudson River Valley, which George Washington referred to as the "Key to the Northern Country," played a central role in the American Revolution. From 1776 to 1780, with major battles fought at Saratoga, Fort Montgomery, and Stony Point, the region was a central battleground of the Revolution. In addition, it witnessed some of the most dramatic and memorable aspects of the war, such as Benedict Arnold's failed conspiracy at West Point, the burning of New York's capital at Kingston, and the more than six-hundred-mile march of Washington and the Continental Army and Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and his French Expeditionary Corps to Yorktown, Virginia. Compiled from essays that appeared in the Hudson Valley Regional Review and the Hudson River Valley Review, published by the Hudson River Valley Institute, the book illustrates the richly textured history of this supremely important time and place." -- Publisher's description.

Series Statement

SUNY series, an American region: studies in the Hudson Valley

Uniform Title

SUNY series, an American region.

Alternative Title

Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution

Subjects

• New York (State)
• History
• Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) > History > 18th century
• United States > Hudson River Valley
• American Revolution (1775-1783)
• 1700 - 1799
• New York (State) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Overview: the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth and James M. Johnson -- Politics and loyalties -- A suspected loyalist in the rural Hudson River Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge / Kenneth Shefsiek -- "Can you on such principles think of quitting a country?" Family, faith, law, property, and the loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution / Michael Diaz -- New York's committees in the American Revolution / Colin Williams -- Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: the reluctant revolutionary / Clare Brandt -- Skinners: patriot "friends" or loyalist "foes"? / Lincoln Diamant -- The central Hudson Valley and the American Revolution / Thomas S. Wermuth -- Suffrage and society -- Open to all parties: Alexander and James Robertson, Albany printers, 1771-1777 / Denis P. Brennan -- Taxation and suffrage in revolutionary New York / Jonathan Clark -- The right to choose: suffrage during the Revolutionary Era in Charlotte Precinct / William P. McDermott -- "The women! in this place have risen in a mob": Women rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth -- Officers and a lady: the Hudson Highlands and Georgia during the Revolution / Edward J. Cashin -- Fortresses, prisons, and huts -- Lewis Graham's house in Pine Plains: a Revolutionary log building / Neil Larson -- Revolutionary War fleet prison at Esopus, NY / Frank Doherty -- The flawed works of Fort Constitution / James M. Johnson -- Battles and warfare -- A warm reception in the Hudson Highlands / James M. Johnson -- Civil War in Schaghticoke: a footnote to the revolution in upstate New York / R. Beth Klopott -- Interpreting the battle for the Hudson River Valley: the Battle of Fort Montgomery -- James M. Johnson and Gregory Smith -- Revolutionary road: incident on Gallows Hill / Thomas C. O'Keefe -- Soldier of '76: the Revolutionary War service of a Connecticut private in the campaign for New York / William Sullivan -- Valcour Island: setting the conditions for victory at Saratoga / Gregory M. Tomlin.

Call Number

IGF (New York) 14-3266

ISBN

• 9781438448145 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1438448147 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012044466

OCLC

819641581

Title

Key to the northern country : the Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution / edited by James M. Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, and Andrew Villani.

Publisher

Albany : Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, Albany, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY series, an American region: studies in the Hudson Valley

SUNY series, an American region.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700 - 1799

Added Author

Johnson, James M., 1947 June 28- editor.

Pryslopski, Christopher, 1974- editor.

Villani, Andrew, 1986- editor.

Research Call Number

IGF (New York) 14-3266