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George Washington and Benedict Arnold
Author | : Dave Richard Palmer |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781596981645 |
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From 1775 through 1777, George Washington and Benedict Arnold were America's two most celebrated warriors. Their earlier lives had surprisingly parallel paths. They were strong leaders in combat, they admired and respected each other, and they even shared common enemies. Yet one became our greatest hero and the other our most notorious traitor. Why? In the new paperback edition of George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots, author and military historian Dave Palmer reveals the answer: character.
Valiant Ambition
Author | : Nathaniel Philbrick |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780698153233 |
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A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the George Washington Prize A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye. "May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age—a volume that turns one of America’s best-known narratives on its head.”—Boston Globe "Clear and insightful, [Valiant Ambition] consolidates Philbrick's reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction."—Wall Street Journal In the second book of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeded in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have lost the war. As this book ends, four years later Washington has vanquished his demons, and Arnold has fled to the enemy. America was forced at last to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from withinComplex, controversial, and dramatic, Valiant Ambition is a portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation.
Benedict Arnold Revolutionary Hero
Author | : James K. Martin |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2000-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0814756468 |
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This landmark biography stands as an invaluable antidote to the historical distortion surrounding the life of Benedict Arnold.
Washington and His Generals
Author | : George Lippard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433074888805 |
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Benedict Arnold s Army
Author | : Arthur S. Lefkowitz |
Publsiher | : Savas Beatie |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781932714036 |
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A brilliant American combat officer and this countrys most famous traitor, Benedict Arnold is one of the most fascinating and complicated people to emerge from American history. His contemporaries called Arnold the American Hannibal after he successfully led more than 1,000 men through the savage Maine wilderness in 1775. The objective of Arnold and his heroic corps was the fortress city of Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada. The epic campaign is the subject of Benedict Arnolds Army, a fascinating campaign to bring Canada into the war as the 14th colony. The initiative for the assault came from George Washington who learned that a fast moving detachment could surprise Quebec by following a chain of rivers and lakes through the Maine wilderness. Washington picked Col. Benedict Arnold, an obscure and controversial Connecticut officer, to command the corps who signed up for the secret mission. Arnold believed that his expedition would reach Quebec City in twenty days. The route turned out to be 270 miles of treacherous rapids, raging waterfalls, and trackless forests that took months to traverse. At times Arnolds men were up to their waists in freezing water dragging and pushing their clumsy boats through surging rapids and hauling them up and over waterfalls. In one of the greatest exploits in American military history, Arnold led his famished corps through the early winter snow, up and over the Appalachian Mountains, and on to Quebec. Benedict Arnolds Army covers a largely unknown but important period of Arnolds life. Award-winning author Arthur Lefkowitz provides important insights into Arnolds character during the earliest phase of his military career, showing his aggressive nature, need for recognition, experience as a competitive businessman, and his obsession with honor that started him down the path to treason. Lefkowitz extensively researched Arnolds expedition and made numerous trips along the same route that Arnolds army took. Benedict Arnolds Army also contains a closing chapter with detailed information and maps for readers who wish to follow the expeditions route from the coast of Maine to Quebec City. There is a growing interest in the Founding Fathers and the Revolutionary War as a source of national pride and identity and the Arnold Expedition as told through Benedict Arnolds Army is one of the greatest adventure stories in American history. Arthur S. Lefkowitz lives in central New Jersey
The Real Benedict Arnold
Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0395776090 |
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Every account of the American Revolution mentions Benedict Arnold and brands him--correctly--as a traitor. There's no question that Arnold, an American army officer, switched his loyalty to the British side. Over the years, however, historians, partisans, and gossips have added to Arnold's unsavory reputation by distorting, embroidering, or simply ignoring factual details. In this informed and thoughtful account, Jim Murphy goes in search of the real man behind the "traitor" label, rumors, and folktales that became part of the Benedict Arnold legend. Drawing on Arnold's few surviving writings and on the letters, memoirs, and political documents of his contemporaries, Murphy builds a fascinating portrait of a brilliant man, consistently undervalued by his peers, who made a choice that continues to reverberate through American history. Dramatic accounts of crucial battles and political maneuvers round out this lively biography of a patriot who could have been a hero.
George Washington s War
Author | : Robert Leckie |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 873 |
Release | : 2010-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780062015365 |
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An exciting trip back in time to the American Revolution, "a reminder of what history can be when written by a master."--Publishers Weekly
George Washington
Author | : Eugene Parsons |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433103696518 |
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