| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| List of Maps | |
| List of Illustrations | |
| Bk. I | Most Troublesome and Boisterous Times | |
| 1 | A Patriot King | 3 |
| 2 | A Contest Appears to Be Opened | 13 |
| 3 | A Most Pernicious Measure | 26 |
| 4 | A Farmer in Pennsylvania | 47 |
| 5 | Quarrells, Rencounters and Combats | 70 |
| Bk. II | Lyons and Lambs | |
| 1 | A Nest of Locusts; A Focus of Tumult | 89 |
| 2 | All America Is in a Flame | 113 |
| 3 | Blows Must Decide | 126 |
| 4 | To Scourge Them with Rods of Iron | 143 |
| 5 | An Affair that Happened on the 19th Inst. | 157 |
| Bk. III | Imbarked on a Tempestuous Ocean | |
| 1 | A Kind of Destiny | 175 |
| 2 | Oh! Mad, Mad England! | 199 |
| 3 | An Ill-omened and Inauspicious Character | 223 |
| 4 | To Restore Liberty to Our Brethren in Canada | 237 |
| 5 | Parole: The Congress; Countersign: America | 252 |
| Bk. IV | America is an Ugly Job, a Damned Affair Indeed | |
| 1 | Really Gaming Deep | 273 |
| 2 | An Impudent and Atrocious Proclamation | 287 |
| 3 | A Glorious Achievement | 301 |
| 4 | The Dissolution of Our Army Is Approaching | 317 |
| 5 | To Strike Some Stroke | 338 |
| Bk. V | Organized Disaster | |
| 1 | Thoughts for Conducting the War from the Side of Canada | 363 |
| 2 | Messengers of Justice and Wrath | 373 |
| 3 | The Fickle Goddess Fortune | 387 |
| 4 | A Gathering Storm | 403 |
| 5 | Not More than Mortal | 419 |
| Bk. VI | Obstinate Rebels | |
| 1 | You Cannot Conquer America | 435 |
| 2 | To Starve, Dissolve, or Disperse | 453 |
| 3 | Our Situation Is Alarming | 467 |
| 4 | America Takes Her Rank Among the Nations | 481 |
| 5 | Will Mr. Washington Attack? | 498 |
| Bk. VII | The Common Cause | |
| 1 | Spirit Equal to the Risk | 515 |
| 2 | Hourly Change of Circumstance | 537 |
| 3 | On the Brink of a Precipice | 565 |
| 4 | Something Sould Be Hazarded | 583 |
| 5 | To Spirit Up the People | 608 |
| 6 | With Zeal and Bayonets Only | 624 |
| 7 | A Perilous Adventure | 638 |
| 8 | At the Eve of Great Events | 654 |
| Notes | 675 |
| Bibliography | 698 |
| Index | 711 |