Nutrition & Health

Carpenter

Saunders College Publishers

Getting Better All the Time

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Pocket

Core Text Neuroanatomy 4e IE Pb

Medical Books

Basic Sciences

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,US

<p>In a world rife with conflict and tension, how does a great power prosecute an irregular war at a great distance within the context of a regional struggle, all within a global competitive environment? The question, so pertinent today, was confronted by the British nearly 250 years ago during the American War for Independence. And the answer, as this book makes plain, is: not the way the British, under Lieutenant General Charles, Earl Cornwallis, went about it in the American South in the years 1778–81. Southern Gambit presents a closely observed, comprehensive account of this failed strategy. Approaching the campaign from the British perspective, this book restores a critical but little-studied chapter to the narrative of the Revolutionary War—and in doing so, it adds detail and depth to our picture of Cornwallis, an outsize figure in the history of the British Empire.\nDistinguished scholar of military strategy Stanley D. M. Carpenter outlines the British strategic and operational objectives, devoting particular attention to the strategy of employing Southern Loyalists to help defeat Patriot forces, reestablish royal authority, and tamp down resurgent Patriot activity. Focusing on Cornwallis’s operations in the Carolinas and Virginia leading to the surrender at Yorktown in October 1781, Carpenter reveals the flaws in this approach, most notably a fatal misunderstanding of the nature of the war in the South and of the Loyalists’ support. Compounding this was the strategic incoherence of seeking a conventional war against a brilliant, unconventional opponent, and doing so amidst a breakdown in the unity of command.\nUltimately, strategic incoherence, ineffective command and control, and a misreading of the situation contributed to the series of cascading failures of the British effort. Carpenter’s analysis of how and why this happened expands our understanding of British decision-making and operations in the Southern Campaign and their fateful consequences in the War for Independence.</p>

Southern Gambit (Campaigns and Commanders Series) (Volume 65)

History

Americas

CONSERVATIVE CALL TO ARMS (Fundamentalism in American Religion, 1880-1950)

Religion & Spirituality

Facsimiles-Garl

MODERNISM & FOREIGN MISSIONS (Fundamentalism in American Religion, 1880-1950)

FIGHTING FUNDAMENTALISM

Neurophysiology (Physiological Principles in Medicine)

University Park Press

Metaphor and Simile in the Minor Elizabethan Drama

BiblioLife

Visualizing Psychology For Diablo Valley College

WILEY CUSTOM

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