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Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America

Mary Stockwell
4.23/5 (64 ratings)
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In December 1791, President George Washington chose General “Mad” Anthony Wayne to defend America from a potentially devastating threat. Native forces had decimated the standing army and Washington needed a champion to open the country stretching from the Ohio River westward to the headwaters of the Mississippi for settlement.

A spendthrift, womanizer, and heavy drinker who had just been ejected from Congress for voter fraud, Wayne was an unlikely savior. Yet this disreputable general raised a new army and, in 1794, scored a decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, successfully preserving his country and President Washington’s legacy. Drawing from Wayne’s insightful and eloquently written letters, historian Mary Stockwell sheds light on this fascinating and underappreciated figure. Her compelling work pays long-overdue tribute to a man—ravaged physically and emotionally by his years of military service—who fought to defend the nascent American experiment at a critical moment in history.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
376 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
0300214758
ISBN13:
9780300214758
kindle Asin:
B07BZZLCSR

Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America

Mary Stockwell
4.23/5 (64 ratings)
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In December 1791, President George Washington chose General “Mad” Anthony Wayne to defend America from a potentially devastating threat. Native forces had decimated the standing army and Washington needed a champion to open the country stretching from the Ohio River westward to the headwaters of the Mississippi for settlement.

A spendthrift, womanizer, and heavy drinker who had just been ejected from Congress for voter fraud, Wayne was an unlikely savior. Yet this disreputable general raised a new army and, in 1794, scored a decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, successfully preserving his country and President Washington’s legacy. Drawing from Wayne’s insightful and eloquently written letters, historian Mary Stockwell sheds light on this fascinating and underappreciated figure. Her compelling work pays long-overdue tribute to a man—ravaged physically and emotionally by his years of military service—who fought to defend the nascent American experiment at a critical moment in history.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
376 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
0300214758
ISBN13:
9780300214758
kindle Asin:
B07BZZLCSR

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