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1 online resource (416 pages) |
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: THE WORLD OF CHARLES LEE, 1731-1764 -- 1. Colonel Lee's Son -- 2. Early Encounters and Life Lessons on the American Frontier -- 3. An Ambitious Officer -- PART II: THE LAST ASYLUM OF LIBERTY, 1765-1775 -- 4. Absolute Power Is a Serpent -- 5. The Brutality of Love and War -- 6. The Greatest Son of Liberty in America -- 7. The Dogs of War -- PART III: UNFORTUNATE SON OF LIBERTY, 1776-1778 -- 8. The Key to the Continent: New York -- 9. Angels of Indecision: Virginia -- 10. Lee's Southern Glory -- 11. Lee's Northern Disillusionment -- 12. The Idol of the Officers -- 13. The King's Famous Prisoner -- PART IV: THE END OF A SOLDIER'S LIFE, 1778-1782 -- 14. Monmouth -- 15. Washington's Scapegoat? -- 16. The Bitter End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- About the Author |
| Summary |
In November 1774, a pamphlet to the "People of America" was published in Philadelphia and London. It forcefully articulated American rights and liberties and argued that the Americans needed to declare their independence from Britain. The author of this pamphlet was Charles Lee, a former British army officer turned revolutionary, who was one of the earliest advocates for American independence. Lee fought on and off the battlefield for expanded democracy, freedom of conscience, individual liberties, human rights, and for the formal education of women. Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee is a vivid new portrait of one of the most complex and controversial of the American revolutionaries. Lee's erratic behavior and comportment, his capture and more than one year imprisonment by the British, and his court martial after the battle of Monmouth in 1778 have dominated his place in the historiography of the American Revolution. This book retells the story of a man who had been dismissed by contemporaries and by history. Few American revolutionaries shared his radical political outlook, his cross-cultural experiences, his cosmopolitanism, and his confidence that the American Revolution could be won primarily by the militia (or irregulars) rather than a centralized regular army. By studying Lee's life, his political and military ideas, and his style of leadership, we gain new insights into the way the American revolutionaries fought and won their independence from Britain |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-383) and index |
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Print version record |
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Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
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Lee, Charles, 1731-1782
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Lee, Charles, 1731-1782 fast |
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Generals -- United States -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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HISTORY -- Revolutionary.
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Generals
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140183
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United States
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Sources
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History
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Early works
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781479851218 |
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1479851213 |
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