In the hurricane's eye : the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown

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In the hurricane's eye : the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown

Title remainder

the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown

Statement of responsibility

Nathaniel Philbrick

Creator

• Philbrick, Nathaniel

Author

• Philbrick, Nathaniel

Subject

• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, French
• 1775-1783
• Yorktown (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1781
• Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Military leadership
• Southern States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

Language

eng

Summary

"The American Revolution may have been started by a group of citizen-soldiers on a green in Lexington, Massachusetts, but it was won on a choppy patch of water off Chesapeake Bay. In Bunker Hill and Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick gave us a new and provocative way of looking at the war that created the United States. His latest book is the capstone of that enterprise, focusing on the last year of the war, and is the culmination of Philbrick's engagement with American history and the sea over the last twenty years. In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And then, on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened. Recognized today as one of the most important naval engagements in the history of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake--fought without a single American ship--made the subsequent victory of the Americans at Yorktown a virtual inevitability. In a narrative that moves from Washington's headquarters on the Hudson River, to the wooded hillside in North Carolina where Nathanael Greene fought Lord Cornwallis to a vicious draw, to Lafayette's brilliant series of maneuvers across Tidewater Virginia, Philbrick details the epic and suspenseful year through to its triumphant conclusion. A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea."--Dust jacket

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

973.3/37

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E241.Y6

LC item number

P55 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult