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Founding fighters : the battlefield leaders who made American independence

Recounts the stories of 15 of the American Revolution's most important battlefield commanders. This work illuminates various aspects of American military and cultural history. It also investigates two vital themes of the American military tradition, civil-military relations and the respective roles and worth of professional and citizen soldiers.
eBook, English, 2006
Praeger Security International, Westport, Conn., 2006
Biographies
1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages)
9780313050732, 0313050732
230342455
Introduction : the founding fighters' war, 1775-1783
Redcoats to rebel fighters : Richard Montgomery, Charles Lee, and Horatio Gates
Self-educated fighters : Henry Knox and Nathanael Greene
Ambitious fighters : Benedict Arnold and John Paul Jones
Partisan fighters : Andrew Pickens, Thomas Sumter, and Francis Marion
Frontier fighters : Ethan Allen, George Rogers Clark, and Daniel Morgan
Born fighters : Henry Lee and Anthony Wayne
Conclusion : deserving success
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010