NATHANAEL GREENE by Gerald M. Carbone ( 9780230578999 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

NATHANAEL GREENE
A BIOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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ISBN 10:

0230578993

ISBN 13:

9780230578999

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

24 June, 2008

Pages:

288

Description:

Upon taking command of America's Southern Army in 1780, Nathanael Greene took on an army that consisted of 1,500 starving, nearly naked troops. Within a year, the small worn-out army was transformed into an elite fighting force. In a new approach, Carbone chronicles Greene's unlikely rise to success and his fall into debt and anonymity.

Synopsis:

When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer - celebrated as one of three most important generals. Upon taking command of America's Southern Army in 1780, Nathanael Greene was handed troops that consisted of 1,500 starving, nearly naked men. Gerald Carbone explains how within a year, the small worn-out army ran the British troops out of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and into the final trap at Yorktown. Despite his huge military successes and tactical genius Greene's story has a dark side. Using twenty-five years of original research, Gerald Carbone chronicles Greene's unlikely rise to success and his fall into debt and anonymity.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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