Product Details

• Published on: 2006-09-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 88 pages

From Booklist
Part of the new Forgotten Heroes of the American Revolution series, this lively profile combines an engrossing account of the Revolutionary War with healthy measures of images and passages drawn from primary--and sometimes previously unpublished--sources. The author, resident educator at the General Nathanael Greene Homestead Museum, argues that the Rhode Islander played a pivotal role in the war with brilliant performances as, first, Washington's quartermaster general and then, later, as his commander in the South. His sudden death just after the war's end consigned him to relative obscurity, but this account of his life and career certainly makes a strong move to redress that. Equally rewarding for pleasure reading or assignments, for which the useful, multimedia resource list will provide added support. John Peters
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