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Laddar... Southern Gambit: Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktownav Stanley D. M. Carpenter
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. It's really quite simple. If you're looking for one book to read on why London lost its contest with the American "Patriots," this is the book you want to read. Carpenter, a man who teaches admirals-to-be about history, and who respects Lord Cornwallis, applies modern analysis to the conflict and finds a state that simply didn't have the structure to assert the long-distance control American Secretary Germaine aspired to, a theater commander (Gen. Clinton) whose heart really wasn't in the fight, and a field commander (Cornwallis) who could not string all his successful battles together into a victorious campaign. Though the single biggest issue was simply that there were never enough "Loyalists" to hold the territory Cornwallis cleared, while those parties of a neutral mindset, when push came to shove, chose the Patriot cause. None of this is actually news, but what Carpenter does is to make the story fresh so that it has relevance for contemporary military affairs. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"Addresses the Southern Campaign of 1778-81 in the War of American Independence from the British strategic perspective, focusing on Lieutenant-General Charles, Earl Cornwallis' operations in the Carolinas and Virginia leading to the surrender at Yorktown, Virginia in October 1781"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.337History and Geography North America United States Revolution and confederation (1775-89) Operations Campaigns of 1781Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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