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Author | : U.s. Army War College |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781503003132 |
Download Understanding British Strategic Failure in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The War for American Independence was a complex, unconventional, and violent political struggle for the loyalty and allegiance of the American population writ large. It could not, and would not, be decided by the application of conventional military force alone. This paper uses an abbreviated examination of the Southern Campaign (1780-1782) to explore the principal causes and enduring lessons of British strategic failure in America. Unwilling to destroy the colonies in order to save them, British military strategy became a reluctant prisoner of deeply flawed strategic assumptions, a government that failed to determine a realistic and militarily attainable political objective, and a blatant inability to accurately determine the kind of war upon which the nation was engaged until it was far too late. In the process, the British learned that battlefield brilliance seldom rescues bad strategy, there are, in fact, limits to what military force can achieve, and national leaders who base their plans and policies primarily on hope and a stubborn belief in the sanctity of their concerted views, if wrong, can lead a nation to disaster.
Author | : Robert F. Rothschild |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Eclipses |
ISBN | : |
Download What Went Wrong in 1780? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Andrew Roberts |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1033 |
Release | : 2021-11-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1984879278 |
Download The Last King of America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.
Author | : Robert Eldon Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : |
Download Middle-class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ian Haywood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 052119542X |
Download The Gordon Riots Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new and controversial perspective on the causes, personalities and consequences of the most devastating urban riots in British history.
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas J. Fleming |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : New Jersey |
ISBN | : |
Download The Forgotten Victory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nathaniel Philbrick |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0698153235 |
Download Valiant Ambition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the George Washington Prize A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye. "May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age—a volume that turns one of America’s best-known narratives on its head.”—Boston Globe "Clear and insightful, [Valiant Ambition] consolidates Philbrick's reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction."—Wall Street Journal In the second book of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeded in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have lost the war. As this book ends, four years later Washington has vanquished his demons, and Arnold has fled to the enemy. America was forced at last to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from withinComplex, controversial, and dramatic, Valiant Ambition is a portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation.
Author | : J. R. Dinwiddy |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 1992-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826434533 |
Download Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780-1850 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book brings together the articles of J.R. Dinwiddy to show both the coherence and importance of his contribution to British history in this period. His work covers the spectrum of political activity and thought from the Whigs to the Luddites and from Burke via Bentham to Marx.
Author | : Frank Edward Manuel |
Publisher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780871692474 |
Download James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of the early years of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, & the life & career of James Bowdoin, the Academy's first president. The strength of the work rests in a combination of its subject matter & execution. The subject matter is both intrinsically interesting & simultaneously neglected. Neither the accomplishments of Bowdoin nor the contributions of the members of the Academy have been adequately studied, & the Manuel's careful exploration is a valuable addition to our understanding of the founding of the nation. Using primary manuscript sources, the work is, by turns, witty, learned, & often simply fascinating. An incomparable account of one of Revolutionary America's most elusive & fascinating figures.