Three Views of Independence: Firsthand Accounts of the Revolutionary War from an American Patriot, an American Tory, and

Three firsthand accounts of the American Revolutionary War. Ebenezer Fox enlisted in the patriot militia before joining the US Navy, where he was captured and escaped from a British prison barge. The Chevalier de Pontgibaud was a French aristocrat who joined Washington's army at Valley Forge. David Fanning formed a loyalist pro-British militia under Cornwallis's command and fought several battles against the patriots.