The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire / Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.
ISBN:
9780300195248
Título:
The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire / Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.
Autor:
O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson.
Autor personal:
Descripción física:
1 online resource (xiv, 466 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Serie:
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Contenido:
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.
Nota local:
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Formato:
Recursos electrónicos
Acceso electrónico:
http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=592050
Fecha de publicación:
2013
WAIT_PUBINFO:
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.