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About the Author

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Richard M. Ketchum graduated from Yale Unviersity and commanded a subchaser in the South Atlantic during World War II. As director of book publishing at American Heritage Publishing Company for twenty years, he edited many of that firm's volumes, including "The American Heritage Book of the Revolution "and "The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War," which received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. Ketcham was the cofounder and editor of "Blair & Ketcham's Country Journal," a monthly magazine about rural life. He and his wife live on a sheep farm in Vermont. He is the author of two other Revolutionary War classics: "Saratoga "and "The Winter Soldiers."

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"A fine job . . . a marvelous feat." (Bruce Bliven, Jr., The New York Times Book Review)