Key to the Northern Country: The Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution (SUNY series, An American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valley)

The Hudson River Valley, Which George Washington Referred To As The Key To The Northern Country, Played A Central Role In The American Revolution. From 1776 To 1780, With Major Battles Fought At Saratoga, Fort Montgomery, And Stony Point, The Region Was A Central Battleground Of The Revolution. In Addition, It Witnessed Some Of The Most Dramatic And Memorable Aspects Of The War, Such As Benedict Arnold's Failed Conspiracy At West Point, The Burning Of New York's Capital At Kingston, And The More Than Six-hundred-mile March Of Washington And The Continental Army And Jean Baptiste Donatien De Vimeur, Comte De Rochambeau, And His French Expeditionary Corps To Yorktown, Virginia. Compiled From Essays That Appeared In The Hudson Valley Regional Review And The Hudson River Valley Review, Published By The Hudson River Valley Institute, The Book Illustrates The Richly Textured History Of This Supremely Important Time And Place. -- Publisher's Description. Overview: The American Revolution In The Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth And James M. Johnson -- Politics And Loyalties -- A Suspected Loyalist In The Rural Hudson River Valley: The Revolutionary War Experience Of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge / Kenneth Shefsiek -- Can You On Such Principles Think Of Quitting A Country? Family, Faith, Law, Property, And The Loyalists Of The Hudson Valley During The American Revolution / Michael Diaz -- New York's Committees In The American Revolution / Colin Williams -- Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: The Reluctant Revolutionary / Clare Brandt -- Skinners: Patriot Friends Or Loyalist Foes? / Lincoln Diamant -- The Central Hudson Valley And The American Revolution / Thomas S. Wermuth -- Suffrage And Society -- Open To All Parties: Alexander And James Robertson, Albany Printers, 1771-1777 / Denis P. Brennan -- Taxation And Suffrage In Revolutionary New York / Jonathan Clark --^ The Right To Choose: Suffrage During The Revolutionary Era In Charlotte Precinct / William P. Mcdermott -- The Women! In This Place Have Risen In A Mob: Women Rioters And The American Revolution In The Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth -- Officers And A Lady: The Hudson Highlands And Georgia During The Revolution / Edward J. Cashin -- Fortresses, Prisons, And Huts -- Lewis Graham's House In Pine Plains: A Revolutionary Log Building / Neil Larson -- Revolutionary War Fleet Prison At Esopus / Frank Doherty -- The Flawed Works Of Fort Constitution / James M. Johnson -- Battles And Warfare -- A Warm Reception In The Hudson Highlands / James M. Johnson -- War In Schaghticoke: A Footnote To The Revolution In Upstate New York / R. Beth Klopott -- Interpreting The Battle For The Hudson River Valley: The Battle Of Fort Montgomery -- James M. Johnson And Gregory Smith -- Revolutionary Road: Incident On Gallows Hill / Thomas C. O'keefe --^ Soldier Of '76: The Revolutionary War Service Of A Connecticut Private In The Campaign For Yew York / William Sullivan -- Valcour Island: Setting The Conditions For Victory At Saratoga / Gregory M. Tomlin. Edited By James M. Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, And Andrew Villani. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley’s role in the American Revolution. The Hudson River Valley, which George Washington referred to as the “Key to the Northern Country,” played a central role in the American Revolution. From 1776 to 1780, with major battles fought at Saratoga, Fort Montgomery, and Stony Point, the region was a central battleground of the Revolution. In addition, it witnessed some of the most dramatic and memorable aspects of the war, such as Benedict Arnold’s failed conspiracy at West Point, the burning of New York’s capital at Kingston, and the more than six-hundred-mile march of Washington and the Continental Army and Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and his French Expeditionary Corps to Yorktown, Virginia. Compiled from essays that appeared in the Hudson Valley Regional Review and the Hudson River Valley Review, published by the Hudson River Valley Institute, the book illustrates the richly textured history of this supremely important time and place. James M. Johnson is Executive Director of the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College, Military Historian of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, and Dr. Frank T. Bumpus Professor of Hudson River Valley History. He is also coeditor (with Christopher Pryslopski and Thomas S. Wermuth) of America’s First River: The History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley, also published by SUNY Press. At the Hudson River Valley Institute, Christopher Pryslopski is Program Director and Andrew Villani is Coordinator.