The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire / Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.
by
O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson.
ISBN
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9780300195248
Title
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The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire / Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.
Author
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O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson.
Personal Author
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O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xiv, 466 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series
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Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Contents
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The view from London. "The tyrant": George III ; The prime minister: Lord North -- Victory and defeat in the north (1776-1778). The peace commissioners?: the Howe brothers ; "The old gamester": John Burgoyne ; "The Achilles of the American war": Lord George Germain -- Victory and defeat in the south (1778-1781). "The scapegoat": Sir Henry Clinton ; "Bagging the fox": Charles, Earl Cornwallis -- Victory against France and Spain (1782). "Saint George": Sir George Rodney ; "Jemmy Twitcher": The Earl of Sandwich.
Local Note
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eBooks on EBSCOhost
Corporate Subject
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Great Britain. Army -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Great Britain. Army. (OCoLC)fst00533555
Conference Subject
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American Revolution (1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) (OCoLC)fst01032683
Subject Term
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Participation, British.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Military participation -- British. (OCoLC)fst01353706
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Geographic Term
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- British forces.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820.
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
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2013
Publication Information
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.
| Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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| 973.32 23 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |