Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution Vol. IV (4) - Couverture rigide

Lafayette, Le Marquis De

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801413362 ISBN 13 : 9780801413360

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1981

Synopsis

The fourth volume in this distinguished series is a documentary chronicle of the 1781 campaign that culminated in the October surrender of Cornwallis and his army to the joint American and French forces at Yorktown. As leader of the American troops in Virginia from April through September 1781, Lafayette played a major role in planning this campaign; the greatest American victory of the war was also an outstanding personal triumph.

In this volume Lafayette's correspondents include American military figures such as Washington, Greene, Steuben, and Wayne; the British commanders Phillips and Cornwallis; and such civil authorities as Jefferson, Thomas Nelson, William Davies, and Thomas Sim Lee. Their exchanges provide a vivid picture, with all the immediacy and authenticity that only documents can give, of the problems and frustrations of the campaign, and they draw attention to the specific decisions that led to the allied containment of the British forces.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stanley J. ldzerda is Editor; Roger E. Smith is Associate Editor; and Linda J. Pike and Mary Ann Quinn are Assistant Editors, The Papers of the Marquis de Lafayette, Cornell University Libraries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801413362
• ISBN 13: 9780801413360
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 600
• Éditeur: Idzerda Stanley J., Crout Robert Rhodes, Pike Linda J., Quinn Mary Ann
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible