General George Washington : A Military Life

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as a strategist, tactician, administrator, and leader of men. Now, General George Washington takes us from the young Washington's controversial participation in the French and Indian War, through his failures and successes leading the Revolutionary War, to his tempestuous retirement and death in wartime as commander in chief. Based on the largest collection of Washington's papers ever assembled, much of it never before published, General George Washington provides a groundbreaking account of Washington and military man. During the American Revolution, Washington's relative inexperience on the battlefield showed as he was repeatedly defeated. Yet in circumstances where almost any other army, under any commander, would have collapsed, Washington not only held his army together but crafted it into an increasingly effective fighting force. It was Washington's discipline, tenacity, conviction, hard work, and ability to symbolically unite the nation that really won the war. Telling the story of how he accomplished this incredible feat, General George Washington gives us new insight into Washington's character, allowing us, at long last, to fully appreciate the achievement of America's first great warrior.