Daniel Morgan : a revolutionary life
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Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme Publishing, LLC, [2018].
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Book
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9781594163159, 1594163154
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xx, 376 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Adult (4th Floor) - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme Publishing, LLC, [2018].
Language
English
ISBN
9781594163159, 1594163154
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-361) and index.
Description
On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis's troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. Born in New Jersey in 1736, he left home at seventeen and found himself in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There he worked in mills and as a teamster, and was recruited for Braddock's disastrous expedition to take Fort Duquesne from the French in 1755. When George Washington called for troops to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select group of riflemen and headed north. From that moment on, Morgan's presence made an immediate impact on the battlefield and on his superiors. Washington soon recognized Morgan's leadership and tactical abilities. When Morgan's troops blocked the British retreat at Saratoga in 1777, ensuring an American victory, he received accolades from across the colonies. In Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, the first biography of this iconic figure in forty years, historian Albert Louis Zambone presents Morgan as the quintessential American everyman, who rose through his own dogged determination from poverty and obscurity to become one of the great battlefield commanders in American history. Using social history and other advances in the discipline that had not been available to earlier biographers, the author provides an engrossing portrait of this storied personality of America's founding era--a common man in uncommon times.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Zambone, A. L. (2018). Daniel Morgan: a revolutionary life . Westholme Publishing, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zambone, Albert Louis, 1969-. 2018. Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life. Westholme Publishing, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zambone, Albert Louis, 1969-. Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Zambone, Albert Louis. Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2018.
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