Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence (38 page)

About the Author

Jack Kelly
is a journalist, novelist, and historian. His most recent book,
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards & Pyrotechnics,
was praised by
The Baltimore Sun
as “brilliantly succinct and excruciatingly powerful.” He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley, where much of the action of the Revolutionary War took place.

BAND OF GIANTS
Copyright © 2014 by Jack Kelly. All rights reserved. For information, address Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover painting by Don Troiani/www.historicalimagebank.com

Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

The Library of Congress has catalogued the print edition as follows:

Kelly, Jack.

Band of giants : the amateur soldiers who won America’s independence / Jack Kelly.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-137-27877-7 (alk. paper)

1. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Campaigns. 2. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Biography. 3. Generals—United States—Biography. I. Title.

E230.K45 2014

973.3’3—dc23

2014002004

e-ISBN: 978-1-137-47456-8

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Frontispiece:
Title
by H. Charles McBarron. Courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History.

First edition: September 2014