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100 1 $aHogeland, William,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAutumn of the Black Snake :$bthe creation of the U.S. Army and the invasion that opened the West /$cWilliam Hogeland.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2017.
300 $a447 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 419-425) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: The ruins of an old French fort -- Part I: Sinclair's retreat. The death of General Butler ; The turnip field ; Drive them out ; An inquiry into the causes of the late unfortunate defeat -- Part II: War dancing. Standing armies ; Metropotamia ; Mad Anthony ; The peaceful intentions of the United States ; Legion Ville -- Part III: The Black Snake march. Recovery ; Fallen Timbers ; Black granite.
520 $aAn account of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Native American war. Describes how George Washington and other early leaders organized the Legion of the United States under General "Mad" Anthony Wayne in response to a 1791 militia defeat in the Ohio River Valley. --Publisher
520 $a"When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic soon found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands. In 1791, years of skirmishes, raids, and quagmire climaxed in the grisly defeat of American militiamen by a brilliantly organized confederation of Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware Indians. With nearly one thousand U.S. casualties, this was the worst defeat the nation would ever suffer at native hands. Americans were shocked, perhaps none more so than their commander in chief, George Washington, who saw in the debacle an urgent lesson: the United States needed an army. Autumn of the Black Snake tells the overlooked story of how Washington achieved his aim. In evocative and absorbing prose, William Hogeland conjures up the woodland battles and the hardball politics that formed the Legion of the United States, our first true standing army. His memorable portraits of leaders on both sides--from the daring war chiefs Blue Jacket and Little Turtle to the doomed commander Richard Butler and a steely, even ruthless Washington--drive a tale of horrific violence, brilliant strategizing, stupendous blunders, and valorous deeds. This sweeping account, at once exciting and dark, builds to a crescendo as Washington and Alexander Hamilton, at enormous risk, outmaneuver Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other skeptics of standing armies--and Washington appoints the seemingly disreputable Anthony Wayne, known as Mad Anthony, to lead the legion. Wayne marches into the forests of the Old Northwest, where the very Indians he is charged with defeating will bestow on him, with grudging admiration, a new name: the Black Snake. Autumn of the Black Snake is a dramatic work of military and political history, told in a colorful, sometimes startling blow-by-blow narrative. It is also an original interpretation of how greed, honor, political beliefs, and vivid personalities converged on the killing fields of the Ohio Valley, where the United States Army would win its first victory, and in so doing destroy the coalition of Indians who came closer than any, before or since, to halting the nation's westward expansion."--Jacket.
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