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11
Flexner,
George Washington,
1:334.
12
Schutz and Adair,
Spur of Fame
, 97.
13
Ibid., 98.
14
Ibid.
15
Ibid., 97.
16
Henriques,
Realistic Visionary,
22.
17
Flexner,
George Washington,
1:343.
18
PWR,
13:322. Letter to William Gordon, January 23, 1778.
19
Longmore,
Invention of George Washington,
163.
20
Grant,
John Adams,
156.
21
Ibid.
22
DiariesA,
198.
23
Flexner,
George Washington,
1:338.
24
Ibid., 2:9.
25
Diaries,
3:336. Diary entry for June 15, 1775.
26
DiariesA,
198.
27
PWR,
1:1. “Address to the Continental Congress,” June 16, 1775.
28
Ibid., 1:2-3.
29
Flexner,
George Washington,
1:342.
30
Longmore,
Invention of George Washington,
177.
31
Freeman,
George Washington,
3:439-40.
32
WWR,
167-68. Letter to Martha Washington, June 18, 1775.
33
Ibid., 168.
34
PWR,
1:15. Letter to John Parke Custis, June 19, 1775.
35
WWR,
168. Letter to Martha Washington, June 18, 1775. Ibid., 170. Letter to Burwell Bassett, June 19, 1775.
36
Ibid., 170. Letter to Burwell Bassett, June 19, 1775.
37
Cadou,
George Washington Collection,
213.
38
McCullough,
1776,
57.
39
Ibid., 44.
40
PWR,
1:56.
41
WWF,
14:385. Letter to John Jay, April 14, 1779.
42
WWR,
222. Letter to John Augustine Washington, March 31, 1776.
43
Cunliffe,
George Washington,
75.
44
PWR,
1:95.
45
Ibid., 1:16. Letter to the Officers of Five Virginia Independent Companies, June 20, 1775.
46
WWR,
173. Letter to Martha Washington, June 23, 1775.
47
PWR,
1:33.
48
Ibid., 1:34.
49
Golway,
Washington’s General,
55.
50
PWR,
1:135. Letter to Samuel Washington, July 20, 1775.
51
WWR,
184-85. Letter to Lund Washington, August 20, 1775.
52
PWR,
1:41. “Address to the New York Provincial Congress,” June 26, 1775.
53
Freeman,
George Washington,
3:470.
54
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:27.
55
Decatur,
Private Affairs of George Washington,
xxi.
56
Longmore,
Invention of George Washington,
182.
 
 
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: MAGNIFICENT BLUFF
1
Batchelder, “Col. Henry Vassall.”
2
WWR,
178. Letter to Richard Henry Lee, July 10, 1775.
3
PWR,
1:54. “General Orders,” July 4, 1775.
4
Cadou,
George Washington Collection,
213-14.
5
Anderson, “Hinge of Revolution.”
6
Palmer,
George Washington and Benedict Arnold,
111.
7
Ibid.
8
Longmore,
Invention of George Washington,
196.
9
Freeman,
George Washington,
3:504-5.
10
PWR,
1:135. Letter to Samuel Washington, July 20, 1775.
11
Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing,
11.
12
Gaines,
For Liberty and Glory,
105.
13
PWR,
6:482. Letter to Patrick Henry, October 5, 1776.
14
Gaines,
For Liberty and Glory,
69.
15
Anderson, “Hinge of Revolution.”
16
Cadou,
George Washington Collection,
214.
17
WWF,
20:489. Letter to John Sullivan, December 17, 1780.
18
McCullough,
1776,
31.
19
PWR,
1:55. “General Orders,” July 4, 1775.
20
Ibid., 1:93.
21
McCullough,
1776,
32.
22
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:36.
23
Thompson,
Statements Regarding the Physical Appearance,
4.
24
PWR,
1:104. Letter to James Warren, July 10, 1775.
25
Stephenson,
Patriot Battles,
136.
26
Palmer,
George Washington and Benedict Arnold,
111.
27
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:541.
28
Massachusetts Historical Society. Timothy Pickering Papers, P-31, Reel 51, p. 228.
29
PWR,
1:140. Letter to John Hancock, July 21, 1775.
30
WWR,
195-96. Letter to Joseph Reed, December 15, 1775.
31
McCullough,
1776,
62.
32
Stephenson,
Patriot Battles,
175.
33
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:36.
34
PWR,
1:221. Letter to Nicholas Cooke, August 4, 1775.
35
Ibid., 1:218. “General Orders,” August 4, 1775.
36
WWR,
181. Letter to Thomas Gage, August 11, 1775.
37
PWR,
1:302. Letter from Thomas Gage, August 13, 1775.
38
WWR,
182-83. Letter to Thomas Gage, August 19, 1775.
39
PWR,
1:372. Letter to Richard Henry Lee, August 29, 1775.
40
WWR,
184. Letter to Lund Washington, August 20, 1775.
41
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:37.
42
Ibid., 2:49.
43
Higginbotham,
George Washington Reconsidered,
278.
44
McCullough,
1776,
22.
45
Golway,
Washington’s General,
45.
46
Ibid., 54.
47
WWF,
20:241. Letter to George Mason, October 22, 1780.
48
Golway,
Washington’s General,
67.
49
Massachusetts Historical Society. Timothy Pickering Papers, P-31, Reel 51, p. 139.
50
Chinard,
George Washington as the French Knew Him,
53.
51
Callahan,
Henry Knox,
20.
52
DiariesA,
361.
53
Callahan,
Henry Knox,
271.
54
Ibid., 32.
55
Ibid., 227.
56
PWRT,
3:42. Letter to John Adams, September 25, 1798.
57
Stephenson,
Patriot Battles,
65.
 
 
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: LAND OF FREEDOM
1
Rosenfeld,
American Aurora,
276.
2
McCullough,
1776,
51.
3
Ibid., 39.
4
Rosenfeld,
American Aurora,
260.
5
PWR,
2:29. Letter to John Hancock, September 21, 1775.
6
Stephenson,
Patriot Battles,
15.
7
Palmer,
George Washington and Benedict Arnold,
133.
8
Brookhiser,
Founding Father,
115.
9
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:50.
10
WWF,
22:161. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, June 4, 1781.
11
WWR,
1011. Letter to John Adams, September 25, 1798.
12
Freeman,
George Washington,
3:553.
13
Ibid., 3:556.
14
PWR,
2:239. Letter to Major General Philip Schuyler, October 26, 1775.
15
McCullough,
1776,
56.
16
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:53.
17
PWR,
1:399. “Instructions to Captain Nicholas Broughton,” September 2, 1775.
18
Ibid., 2:463. Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, November 30, 1775.
19
PWP,
10:74-75. “Memorandum on General Officers,” Philadelphia, March 9, 1792.
20
Fund, “Whiskey Entrepreneur.”
21
PWR,
2:300. “General Orders,” November 5, 1775.
22
Ibid., 1:287. “General Orders,” August 11, 1775.
23
Ibid., 1:321. “General Orders,” August 18, 1775.
24
Ibid., 1:346. “General Orders,” August 22, 1775.
25
Ibid., 2:493. Letter to Colonel Benedict Arnold, December 5, 1775.
26
Ibid., 2:498. Letter to Major General Philip Schuyler, December 5, 1775.
27
Ibid.
,
3:78. Letter from Major General Philip Schuyler, January 13, 1776.
28
Morgan,
Genius of George Washington,
10.
29
PWR,
1:169. “General Orders,” July 25, 1775.
30
Cunliffe,
George Washington,
78.
31
McCullough,
1776,
64.
32
Stephenson,
Patriot Battles,
185.
33
McCullough,
1776,
36.
34
Wiencek,
Imperfect God,
200.
35
PWR,
2:125. “Council of War,” October 8, 1775.
36
Ibid., 2:354. “General Orders,” November 12, 1775.
37
Hochschild,
Bury the Chains,
98.
38
PWR,
2:436. Letter to Richard Henry Lee, November 27, 1775.
39
Ibid., 2:611. Letter to Richard Henry Lee, December 26, 1775.
40
WWR,
195. Letter to Joseph Reed, December 15, 1775.
41
PWR,
2:623. Letter to John Hancock, December 31, 1775.
42
Ellis,
American Creation,
35.
43
McCullough,
1776,
65.
44
PWR,
2:614. “General Orders,” December 28, 1775.
45
WWR,
196. “General Orders,” January 1, 1776.
46
PWR,
3:19. Letter to John Hancock, January 4, 1776.
47
WWR,
203. Letter to Joseph Reed, January 14, 1776.
48
Ibid.
49
Smith,
John Marshall,
51.
50
WWR,
206. Letter to Joseph Reed, January 31, 1776.
51
Cunliffe,
George Washington,
75.
52
Nelson,
Thomas Paine,
88.
53
PWR,
3:183. Letter from Major General Charles Lee, January 24, 1776.
54
Ibid., 3:419. Letter from Fielding Lewis, March 6, 1776.
55
WWR,
206. Letter to Joseph Reed, January 31, 1776.
56
PWCF,
1:445. Letter to James Madison, June 12, 1784.
57
PWR,
2:74. Letter to Samuel Washington, September 30, 1775.
58
Ibid., 2:72.
59
Ibid., 2:162. Letter to John Augustine Washington, October 13, 1775.
60
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
164.
61
Brady,
Martha Washington,
104.
62
Thompson, “ ‘As If I had Been a Very Great Somebody.’”
63
Henriques,
Realistic Visionary,
91.
64
PWR,
3:172. Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, January 23, 1776.
65
Ibid., 2:252. Letter to Richard Henry Lee, October 29, 1775.
66
Ibid., 3:173. Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, January 23, 1776.
67
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:60.
68
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
164.
69
Henriques,
Realistic Visionary,
94.
70
Unger,
Unexpected George Washington,
110.
71
Fischer,
Washington’s Crossing,
19.
72
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:59.
73
Golway,
Washington’s General,
74.
74
Thompson, “‘As If I had Been a Very Great Somebody.’”
75
Brookhiser,
Founding Father,
159.
76
WWR,
207. Letter to Joseph Reed, January 31, 1776.
77
PWR,
2:243. “Poem by Phillis Wheatley.”
78
WWR,
216. Letter to Phillis Wheatley, February 28, 1776.
79
Ibid.
80
Thompson, “‘As If I had Been a Very Great Somebody.’ ”
 
 
CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE HEIGHTS
1
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:427.
2
PWR,
3:449. “General Orders,” March 11, 1776.

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