Charles Lee : Self Before Country.
Title:
Charles Lee : Self Before Country.
Author:
Mazzagetti, Dominick.
ISBN:
9780813562384
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Series:
Rivergate Regionals Collection
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. The Fateful Choice -- Chapter 2. Lee's "American Expedition" -- Chapter 3. Lee's European Experience -- Chapter 4. Personality and Political Philosophy -- Chapter 5. A "Love Affair" with America -- Chapter 6. Foreign Officers in Service to America -- Chapter 7. America's Soldier -- Chapter 8. Rejoining Washington -- Chapter 9. Captivity, Betrayal, Exchange -- Capter 10. Monmouth -- Chapter 11. Court-Martial -- Chapter 12. Bitterness, Despair, and Death -- Epilogue. A Man Without a Country -- Appendix A. James Wilkinson, Memoirs of My Own Times (1816): The Capture of Charles Lee -- Appendix B. "Mr. Lee's Plan - March 29, 1777" -- Appendix C. Washington and Lee's Battlefield Confrontation -- Appendix D. Shades of Monmouth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Dominick Mazzagetti presents an engaging account of the life of Charles Lee, the forgotten man of the American Revolution and in whose honor the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge-Fort Lee-was named. Mazzagetti analyzes Lee's battlefield successes, his capture by the British, and the damning evidence of Lee's traitorous abandonment of the American cause. He compares the lives and attributes of Lee and George Washington and offers significant observations missing from previous biographies of Lee.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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