The Glorious Cause (78 page)

By Jeff Shaara

Published by Ballantine Books

GODS AND GENERALS

THE LAST FULL MEASURE

GONE FOR SOLDIERS

RISE TO REBELLION

THE GLORIOUS CAUSE

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

Copyright © 2002 by Jeffrey M. Shaara

All rights reserved under International

and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published

in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random

House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random

House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Portraits:

George Washington by James Peale, ca 1787–90, after Charles Wilson Peale
(courtesy of Independence National Historic Park)

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Sifrede Duplessis, 1783
(collections of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)

Nathanael Greene by Charles Wilson Peale, ca 1783
(courtesy of Independence National Historic Park)

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis by Thomas Gainsborough
(courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shaara, Jeff, 1952–

The glorious cause : a novel of the American Revolution / Jeff Shaara.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 9-780-34545-8-681
ISBN-10: 0-345-45868-0

1. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.H18 G58 2003

813′.54—dc21

2002034240

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