Edward G. Lengel
Auteur van General George Washington: A Military Life
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Edward G. Lengel is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia.
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First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His--and the Nation's--Prosperity (2016) 50 exemplaren
The Papers of George Washington. Revolutionary War Series, May-June 1778 (2006) — Redacteur — 16 exemplaren
World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919 (2004) 8 exemplaren
A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History) (2014) 6 exemplaren
The Papers of George Washington. Revolutionary War Series, November 1778-January 1779 (2008) — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series Volume 13, 1 June-31 August 1793 (2007) 3 exemplaren
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Even that may be overstating Washington's military abilities: he fought Howe, Clinton and Cornwallis to something less than a stalemate in New Jersey, Howe having complacently both failed to round up the Americans on Manhattan and left Burgoyne to his fate in upstate New York instead of combining their forces to cut the US in two. He kept the Continental Army in being while seeking to proactively attack, and through harsh winter camps, long enough for French supplies, troops and ships to come through. With a little luck for de Grasse's fleet off the Chesapeake, that was enough to win the victory at Yorktown which ruined Parliament's confidence in the war. Washington's early experiences of war only really schooled him in what not to do, he learnt on the job and from books instead of in a smoothly functional army, and Trenton was his own success in spite of the failure of several elements of his plans. His reputation survived attack while others' heads rolled, not entirely fairly, but in the end his best was just about good enough.… (meer)