The men who lost America : British command during the revolutionary war and the preservation of the empire

The men who lost America : British command during the revolutionary war and the preservation of the empire

London : Oneworld Publications, 2013.

xiv, 466 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 27 cm.

973.32 O81b 2013

(OCoLC)839316900

"In 1781 the British Empire suffered its most devastating defeat in a war that most believed Britain ought to have won. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame ... Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the myths, emerging with a very different and much richer account of the conflict--one driven by able and at times even brilliant leadership. In interlinked biographical chapters, O'Shaughnessy 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 whose stories shed new light upon our understading of how the war unfolded. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War ... O'Shaughnessy looks past the surrender at Yorktown to British victories against the French and Spanish, demonstrating that, ultimately, many of the men who lost America would go on to save the empire"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-448) and index.
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