Leigh Kimmel’s Reviews > The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 > Status Update

The famous battle between Bonhomme Richard and Serapis. This was the peak of the career of John Paul Jones, and the rest of his life would be downhill from that point.

Trouble on English shores, thanks to the mishandling of the dismissal of an admiral, which led other admirals to be unwilling to take risks. And just where is that troublesome John Paul Jones?

The raids on Iroqouis villages, intending to remove the threat of the Iroquois so that the Continental Army could focus upon the British Regulars and their Hessian mercenaries, not guerilla attacks on their rear. To this day the Iroquois in Canada call George Washington "Town Burner" for those orders.

Paul Revere proves a failure at military leadership and returns to silversmithing, but insists on clearing his name.

King George sends his son William (later to become William IV, immediate predecessor of Queen Victoria) to sea with the Royal Navy. He's a younger son, so his father assumed he would soon be out of the direct line of succession.

Politics at the senior level of military leadership in London, and desperation in recruiting.

Arnold's tragic fall, almost Shakespearian in scope. Perhaps the most able and talented general the Continental Army had, yet his character flaws led him to scupper all of it.

Runaway inflation and massive counterfeiting by British agents leads to the saying "not worth a Continental."

Newly liberated Pennsylvania tries accused collaborators, and many are sentenced to death and hanged. In at least one case, even the jury that found an elderly Quaker couple guilty considered the death penalty too severe for their level of collaboration.

Admiral Howe heads back to England, to accusations that he and his brothers were profiting from the war.