Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of IndependenceOxford University Press, 2007 M06 4 - 704 páginas In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle." Almost a Miracle offers an illuminating portrait of America's triumph, offering vivid descriptions of all the major engagements, from the first shots fired on Lexington Green to the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, revealing how these battles often hinged on intangibles such as leadership under fire, heroism, good fortune, blunders, tenacity, and surprise. Ferling paints sharp-eyed portraits of the key figures in the war, including General Washington and other American officers and civilian leaders. Some do not always measure up to their iconic reputations, including Washington himself. The book also examines the many faceless men who soldiered, often for years on end, braving untold dangers and enduring abounding miseries. The author explains why they served and sacrificed, and sees them as the forgotten heroes who won American independence. |
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The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling. PREFACE. M. y ... Revolution, including his services on behalf of the British army. Over the ... American Revolution, seeing it as a companion to my political history of the ...
The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling. PREFACE. M. y ... Revolution, including his services on behalf of the British army. Over the ... American Revolution, seeing it as a companion to my political history of the ...
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The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling. the American Revolution had set the world ablaze, and indeed the War of Independence grew to be a world war, with men fighting from Florida to Canada, from the Caribbean to ...
The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling. the American Revolution had set the world ablaze, and indeed the War of Independence grew to be a world war, with men fighting from Florida to Canada, from the Caribbean to ...
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... American Revolution might be over. A great crisis in America's fortunes was at hand. A Continental officer from Delaware thought the very “Fate of the Campaigns, & the American Army” was at stake. Only the “utmost exertions of desperate ...
... American Revolution might be over. A great crisis in America's fortunes was at hand. A Continental officer from Delaware thought the very “Fate of the Campaigns, & the American Army” was at stake. Only the “utmost exertions of desperate ...
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... American Revolution was waged for possession of the green, rolling Shenandoah Valley and beyond, two hundred miles or more west of the colony's initial settlements. New England's seventeenth-century soldiers campaigned on the forbidding ...
... American Revolution was waged for possession of the green, rolling Shenandoah Valley and beyond, two hundred miles or more west of the colony's initial settlements. New England's seventeenth-century soldiers campaigned on the forbidding ...
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The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling. rigorous post ... America in the face of the “Novelty of an Invisible Enemy.”8 From this, too ... Revolution the impression had hardened—before then it appears to have been ...
The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling. rigorous post ... America in the face of the “Novelty of an Invisible Enemy.”8 From this, too ... Revolution the impression had hardened—before then it appears to have been ...
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THE WAR IN THE NORTH 17761779 | 73 |
THE WAR IN THE SOUTH 17801781 | 407 |
AMERICAN VICTORY 17811783 | 521 |
Abbreviations | 576 |
Notes | 578 |
Bibliography | 653 |
Index | 663 |
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Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence John E. Ferling Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
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Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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