Fatal Sunday : George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the politics of battle / Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone.

Author: Lender, Mark Edward, 1947- author.

ImprintNorman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]

Descriptionxxi, 600 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-575) and indexes.

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