Bibliographical Note
In Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. VI (1889), and in Larned (editor), Literature of American History, pp. 111-152 (1902), the authorities are critically estimated. There are excellent classified lists in Van Tyne, The American Revolution (1905), vol. V of Hart (editor), The American Nation, and in Avery, History of the United States, vol. V, pp. 422-432, and vol. VI, pp. 445-471 (1908-09). The notes in Channing, A History of the United States, vol. III (1913), are useful. Detailed information in regard to places will be found in Lossing, The Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, 2 vols. (1850).
In recent years American writers on the period have chiefly occupied themselves with special studies, and the general histories have been few. Tyler’s The Literary History of the American Revolution, 2 vols. (1897), is a penetrating study of opinion. Fiske’s The American Revolution, 2 vols. (1891), and Sydney George Fisher’s The Struggle for American Independence, 2 vols. (1908), are popular works. The short volume of Van Tyne is based upon extensive research. The attention of English writers has been drawn in an increasing degree to the Revolution. Lecky, A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, chaps. XIII, XIV, and XV (1903), is impartial. The most elaborate and readable history is Trevelyan, The American Revolution, and his George the Third and Charles Fox (six volumes in all, completed in 1914). If Trevelyan leans too much to the American side the opposite is true of Fortescue, A History of the British Army, vol. III (1902), a scientific account of military events with many maps and plans. Captain Mahan, U. S. N., wrote the British naval history of the period in Clowes (editor), The Royal Navy, a History, vol. III, pp. 353-564 (1898). Of great value also is Mahan’s Influence of Sea Power on History (1890) and Major Operations of the Navies in the War of Independence (1913). He may be supplemented by C. O. Paullin’s Navy of the American Revolution (1906) and G. W. Allen’s A Naval History of the American Revolution, 2 vols. (1913).