History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 2

Mercy Otis Warren witnessed the American Revolution as it happened, and in this three-volume history she captured it with the fury and conviction of someone who believed the cause was everything. Written between 1775 and 1789, this account emerges from the heart of the conflict, not from some safe historical distance, but from a woman who knew the architects of independence personally, who argued with them, and who watched the Republic they built take shape with both pride and profound unease. Warren's history is not the detached chronicle of later historians; it is a passionate, polemical, deeply personal record of a revolution that she feared might be betrayed by its own children. Volume Two carries readers through the war's turning points, the dark years of British advances, the unlikely victories at Saratoga and Yorktown, the diplomatic machinations that secured French alliance, and into the contentious peace negotiations that followed. Warren tracks the collapse of royal authority in the states and the chaotic experiment with self-government that convinced many patriots that the Articles of Confederation were a disaster waiting to happen. Hers is the history of a revolutionary who remained skeptical of the Constitution even as others celebrated it,一位 seeing the unfinished nature of the American experiment before the ink was dry.