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Fatal Sunday : George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the politics of battle / Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Ston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lender, Mark Edward, 1947- author.
- Stone, Garry Wheeler, author.
- Series:
- Campaigns and commanders ; v. 54.
- Campaigns and commanders ; volume 54
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Military leadership.
- Washington, George.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799.
- Monmouth, Battle of, Freehold, N.J., 1778.
- Command of troops.
- New Jersey--Freehold.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 600 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- The audit of war: the military situation, 1777-1778
- A general under fire: George Washington and his critics
- Antagonists: the British and American armies
- Toward a new campaign
- The matter of Major General Charles Lee
- The roads to Monmouth I: Henry Clinton's march
- The roads to Monmouth II: the continental advance
- General Lee's orders: expectations and misunderstandings
- Battlefield and village
- Morning at Monmouth I: the opening round
- Morning at Monmouth II: General Lee's battle
- Commanders in conflict: the Washington and Lee affair
- Buying time: the point of woods and the hedgerow
- The great cannonade
- Death in the afternoon: the battle of detachments
- Aftermath of battle: the living and the dead
- The British and the French: departures and arrivals
- Constructing victory, settling scores
- A campaign in retrospect: assessments and legacies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780806153353
- 0806153350
- OCLC:
- 923651138
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