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George Washington's Westchester gamble : the encampment on the Hudson and the trapping of Cornwallis
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- Creator
- Richard Borkow
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011
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- 189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781609490393, 1609490398
- OCLC
- ocn706965792
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-183) and index.
- Introduction : changing scenes of war -- Sidebar : the Philipsburg encampment -- The American Revolution and its early French connections -- Turning point on the Hudson : victory at Saratoga leads to the French alliance -- Rochambeau's arrival and Arnold's treason -- Episodes from the war in Westchester -- Now or never our deliverance must come -- To New York or to Virginia? -- The encampment by the Hudson -- George Washington's Westchester gamble -- Sidebar : the fate of the American republic was decided on the seas -- Epilogue