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"On the morning of November 20, 1776, General Charles Cornwallis overran patriot positions at Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. The attack threw George Washington's army into turmoil. Thus began an American retreat across the state, which ended only after the battered rebels crossed the Delaware river at Trenton on December 7. It was a three-week campaign that marked the most dramatic and desperate period of the War for Independence."--BOOK JACKET.
"In The Long Retreat, Arthur Lefkowitz has written the first book-length study of this critical campaign. He adds new detail to the narrative, and offers the most comprehensive account in the literature of the American retreat to the Delaware and of the British pursuit. What emerges is a history that clears away years of historical misconceptions about the movements of the armies, the intentions of their leaders, and the choices available to rebel commanders and their British counterparts.
Lefkowitz presents a patriot military pounded into desperate straights by the forces of the Crown, but in the end more resilient and wily than most previous scholarship has allowed."--BOOK JACKET.
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The long retreat: the calamitous American defense of New Jersey, 1776
1999, Rutgers University Press
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The long retreat: The calamitous American defense of New Jersey, 1776
1998, Upland Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-157) and index.
Originally published: Metuchen, N.J. : Upland Press, 1998.
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