Author: Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300195249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
The Men Who Lost America
Author: Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300195249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300195249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
The New American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
A Complete Set of Nautical Tables
Author: Norie
Publisher:
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The History of the Alison, Or Allison Family in Europe and America, A.D. 1135 to 1893
Author: Leonard Allison Morrison
Publisher: Boston : Damrell & Upham
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : Damrell & Upham
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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New American Practical Navigator
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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The New American Practical Navigator
Author:
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Publisher:
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The New American Practical Navigator; Being an Epitome of Navigation; Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used with the Nauticl Almanac
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
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The New American Practical Navigator ... Exemplified in a Journal Kept from Boston to Madeira ...
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
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Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Publisher:
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Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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