George Washington's Great Gamble And the Sea

There were more men and cannons in the French and British fleets that joined battle on September 5, 1781, than in all the armies in America. America's commander-in-chief, whose military experience had been entirely on land, was gambling everything on a French victory at sea. Book jacket.

James L. Nelson is the author of 15 works of fiction and nonfiction. His novels include the five books of his "Revolution at Sea" saga and three in his "Brethren of the Coast" series. His novel Glory in the Name won the American Library Association's W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Best Military Fiction. Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, 2003, was his first work of nonfiction, and he has since authored two other histories of naval warfare in the American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's Navy and George Washington's Secret Navy, which earned the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the Naval Order of the United States. The Morison Award is one of the top honors accorded maritime historians in the U.S., and past winners include David McCullough and Patrick O'Brian.

Prologue	p. 0
An Opportunity in Virginia
Washington and Rochambeau	p. 3
Sea Power for the General	p. 17
"The parricide Arnold"	p. 26
Copper Bottoms	p. 37
Head of Elk	p. 48
The Battle of Cape Henry	p. 58
"An attempt to conquer Virginia"	p. 72
Greene and Cornwallis: Looking North
The Beginning of the End	p. 83
The American Command	p. 89
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse	p. 100
A Pyrrhic Victory	p. 110
Reinforcing the Chesapeake	p. 121
"[T]he Enemy have turned so much of their attention to the Southern States"	p. 130
The Battle of Blandford	p. 144
The Fight on Land and Sea
The British War at Sea	p. 169
Juncture	p. 184
"I am inclined to think well of York"	p. 195
The Promise of a Fleet	p. 210
The Battle of Green Springs	p. 224
The March on New York	p. 236
An Operation to the Southward	p. 251
The Arrival of de Grasse	p. 263
The Battle of the Capes	p. 275
"The signal was not understood"	p. 290
The Siege of Yorktown	p. 305
Epilogue: "A most glorious day"	p. 323
Time Line	p. 334
Acknowledgments	p. 337
Endnotes	p. 339
Bibliography	p. 365
Index	p. 370
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George Washington's Great Gamble And the Sea Battle That Won the American Revolution

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