George Washington's War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American PresidencyHow a young general shaped a nation — a fascinating account of George Washington as he faced a war and came out as America's first president The American Revolution was won not on the battlefields, but through the mind of George Washington. One of America's founding fathers, Washington's story is one that influenced how our entire nation was built. A compulsively readable narrative and extensive history, George Washington's War illuminates how during the war's winter months the young general created a new model of leadership that became the model for the American presidency. Through hardships, loss, and the brutal conditions of war, Washington led his men with cunning and grace, demonstrating the strong and endearing qualities that led him to become America's most beloved patriot. |
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... thousands of men joined the Continental Army, deter- mined to free the thirteen colonies from the yoke of what they ... thousand soldiers and carrying with it more than two hundred cannon. Public support for the cause ran high in many ...
... thousand men—a quarter of them Hessian auxiliaries—along with one hundred and thirty warships and transports, twenty frigates, and more than three hundred cannon, all gathered at considerable expense to defeat the American colonists ...
... thousand Americans had been killed or captured in the New York campaign, one of the worst defeats in American ... thousand a few weeks before, had dwindled to just five thousand men. The New York routes had been accompanied by news of ...
... thousand men, half the number that General Washington anticipated. Half of them were sick and unfit for combat. The British had cap- tured nearly all of the American cannon in New York. Now, as the snow fell, Washington could count only ...
... thousand or more troops to join their force in America in the spring, bringing the total to more than sixty thousand—against some five thousand Americans. The leaders of the Congress were so fearful of the future that they sent ...
Contents
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The Army Will Die | 71 |
The Patriot King | 101 |
Rebuilding the Army | 137 |
The Armys War Machine | 171 |
Valley Forge | 193 |
The Angel of Death | 231 |
A Hero Turned Traitor | 367 |
The Great Slavery Debate | 403 |
Coup dEtat | 433 |
Cincinnatus | 447 |
I Do Solemnly Swear | 463 |
Acknowledgments | 501 |
Bibliography | 503 |
Notes | 513 |
The Fall From Grace | 253 |
A New American Army | 279 |
Starving to Death | 305 |
A War of Attrition and Ungrateful Hearts | 335 |
Index | 563 |
About the Author | 570 |
Back Cover | 587 |
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