facing page
The campaigns of Arnold and Gates in the country of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain	8
Map of the Battle of Trenton	22
Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne	22
Map of the Battle of Freeman's Farm	36
Map of the Battle of Bemis Heights	36
Map of New Orleans and the lower Mississippi	80
Map left by Aaron Burr, just before his arrest near Coles Creek, Mississippi	236
Theatre of Wilkinson's Operations in 1813 and 1814	288

Major-General James Wilkinson from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart

Frontispiece

Technical Details

Edition Used

The edition transcribed here is the first printing by The Macmillan Company, 1938, but the copyright was not renewed in the appropriate year (1965 or 1966) so the book is now in the public domain: details here on the copyright law involved.

Proofreading

As almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it — not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if success­ful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

My transcription has been minutely proofread. In the table of contents above, the sections are shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme.

The printed book was well proofread; the few typographical errors are marked, when important (or unavoidable because inside a link), with a bullet like this;º and when trivial, with a dotted underscore like this: as elsewhere on my site, glide your cursor over the bullet or the underscored words to read the variant. Similarly, bullets before measurements provide conversions to metric, e.g., •10 miles.

A number of odd spellings, curious turns of phrase, etc. have been marked <!‑‑ sic  in the sourcecode, just to confirm that they were checked.

Any over­looked mistakes, please drop me a line, of course: especially if you have a copy of the printed book in front of you.

Pagination and Local Links

For citation and indexing purposes, the pagination is shown in the right margin of the text at the page turns (like at the end of this line); p57  these are also local anchors. Sticklers for total accuracy will of course find the anchor at its exact place in the sourcecode.

In addition, I've inserted a number of other local anchors: whatever links might be required to accommodate the author's own cross-references, as well as a few others for my own purposes. If in turn you have a website and would like to target a link to some specific passage of the text, please let me know: I'll be glad to insert a local anchor there as well.

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