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                SOURCES

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This being a novel rather than a scholarly work, I feel an obligation to list, and credit, the sources used, but not to create a formal bibliography. The following is a simple (title/author) record of books and journals (memoirs) I read in the order I read them.

 

1.  The Battle of Brooklyn 1776  John J. Gallagher

2.  The Battle For New York  Barnet Schecter

3.  The Battle of Brooklyn, a Farce of Two Acts [anonymous

         Loyalist]

4.  Gentlemen of the family: General George Washington’s…

         Gerald Edward Kahler

5.  Memoir of Lieut. Col. Tench Tilghman  Samuel Harrison,

         Oswald Tilghman

6.  Reminiscences of Gen’l Samuel B. Webb  J. Watson Webb

7.  Campaign of 1776 Around New York & Brooklyn… Henry

          Johnston 

8.  Loyalism in New York During the American Revolution

          Alexander Flick  

9.  Under the Guns New York: 1775-76  Bruce Bliven, Jr.                 10. Battle for Manhattan  Bruce Bliven, Jr.                                       11. Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed  William B. Reed

12. Colonial New York: A History  Michael Kammen

13. Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier  Joseph Plumb Martin

14. Journal of Lieutenant Isaac Bangs, April 1 to July 29, 1776

15. Father Knickerbocker Rebels  Thomas J. Wertenbaker

16. Turncoats, Traitors & Heroes: Espionage in the American

            Revolution  John Bakeless

17. Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties  

            Henry Onderdonk

18. Bunker Hill  Nathaniel Philbrick

19. The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution  Ira D.

            Gruber 

20. Nathaniel Green  Gerald M. Carbone

21. Memoirs of His Own Time…  Alexander Graydon 

22. Memoirs of Major-General William Heath 

23. The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution  Edmund S. &

             Helen M. Morgan                 

24. Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox  Francis Drake

25. Memoirs of the Life of John Adlum in the Revolutionary War

26. The Winter Soldiers  Richard M.Ketchum

27. The Private Soldier Under Washington  Charles Knowles

             Bolton 

28. New York in the American Revolution  Wilbur C. Abbott

29. George Washington’s Secret Six  Brian Kilmeade

30. The Life of Israel Putnam  David Humphreys

31. Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill  Richard M. Ketchum 32. Secret History of the American Revolution  Carl Van Doren

33. The Spy Unmasked or Memoirs of Enoch Crosby… H.L.

              Barnum

34. A General of the Revolution: John Sullivan…   Charles P.

              Whittemore

35. Rag, Tag and Bobtail   Lynn Montross 

36. History of the Siege of Boston… Richard Frothingham 

37. Narrative of the Exertions and Sufferings of Lieut. James

              Moody

38. The Oyster-Industry of the United States  Ernest Ingersoll 

39. Revolutionary War Battle of Brooklyn  Sam W Galowitz  

40. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell  Mark Kurlansky

41. Diary of the American Revolution (Vol. 1)  Frank Moore 

42. The Secret War of Independence  Helen Auger                           43. The Tide Turns  Donald Barr Chidsey

44. George Washington, Spymaster  Thomas B. Allen

45. Voices of 1776: The Story of the American Revolution

              Richard Wheeler         

46. Rebels & Redcoats  George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin

47. The Spirit of Seventy-Six  Henry Steele Commager                   48. John Nice Diary

49. Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton…  William B. Willcox

50. A History of the American Theatre  William Dunlap 

51. The American Revolution in New York  [Alexander Flick] 

52. Journal of Solomon Nash  Charles L. Bushnell

53. The History of the Rise, Progress and Establishment

               William Gordon

54. Military Journal During The Revolutionary War…  James

               Thacher

55. The Columbia Historical Portrait of New York  John A.

              Kouwenhoven

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