Military Leaders in the American Revolution

How could Nathanael Greene succeed in driving the British out of the South by losing four consecutive battles? What was Lord Cornwallis thinking when he fired cannon point blank into his own troops at the climactic battle of Guilford Court House? Set aside images of Minutemen and tea parties, drummer boys and fife players, the future president standing tall in a boat. Picture instead ten generals, six American and four British, fighting a war with oddly mixed armies of fluctuating size, loyalties and experience. Clearly and crisply, Military Leaders In The American Revolution tells us what these ten major players in American history thought and did - and why.