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Prologue 0
Part 1 An Opportunity in Virginia
1 Washington and Rochambeau 3
2 Sea Power for the General 17
3 "The parricide Arnold" 26
4 Copper Bottoms 37
5 Head of Elk 48
6 The Battle of Cape Henry 58
7 "An attempt to conquer Virginia" 72
Part 2 Greene and Cornwallis: Looking North
8 The Beginning of the End 83
9 The American Command 89
10 The Battle of Guilford Courthouse 100
11 A Pyrrhic Victory 110
12 Reinforcing the Chesapeake 121
13 "[T]he Enemy have turned so much of their attention to the Southern States" 130
14 The Battle of Blandford 144
Part 3 The Fight on Land and Sea
15 The British War at Sea 169
16 Juncture 184
17 "I am inclined to think well of York" 195
18 The Promise of a Fleet 210
19 The Battle of Green Springs 224
20 The March on New York 236
21 An Operation to the Southward 251
22 The Arrival of de Grasse 263
23 The Battle of the Capes 275
24 "The signal was not understood" 290
25 The Siege of Yorktown 305
Epilogue: "A most glorious day" 323
Time Line 334
Acknowledgments 337
Endnotes 339
Bibliography 365
Index 370
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Elzbieta Biessek-piechota
reviewed George Washington's Great Gamble: And the Sea Battle That Won the American Revolution on November 11, 2017
George Washington's Great Gamble: And the Sea Battle That Won the American Revolution
Excellent history of the last year of the Revolutionary War, and the key role of the French Navy (and Army) in defeating the British. Nelson's descriptions of the sea battles are full of the kind of knowing detail that an author who is himself a sailor brings to the subject. One of the great virtues of this history is that it is written by an author who is normally a writer of historical fiction, so the book has good pacing, reads like a novel, and tells an often overlooked story in an engaging way. Reading this book inspired me to read Lafayette by Unger.
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