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  title info:
    title: In the hurricane's eye
    sub title: the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown
  name:
    name part: Philbrick, Nathaniel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 366 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And then, on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened. Recognized today as one of the most important naval engagements in the history of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake, fought without a single American ship, made the subsequent victory of the Americans at Yorktown a virtual inevitability. In a narrative that moves from Washington's headquarters on the Hudson River, to the wooded hillside in North Carolina where Nathanael Greene fought Lord Cornwallis to a vicious draw, to Lafayette's brilliant series of maneuvers across Tidewater Virginia, Philbrick details the epic and suspenseful year through to its triumphant conclusion. A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea.
  table of contents: Preface: The land and the sea -- Part I: "Against the wind". The building storm ; "An enemy in the heart of the country" ; "Delays and accidents of the sea" ; Bayonets and zeal ; The end of the tether -- Part II: "The ocean of history". "A ray of light" ; "The spur of speed" ; "Ligne de vitesse" ; Yorktown ; "The North River captain" -- Epilogue: Aftermath.
  note: Nathaniel Philbrick.
  note: Maps on endpapers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-va
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    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Washington, George
      name part: 1732-1799
    topic: Military leadership
  subject:
    geographic: Yorktown (Va.)
    topic: History
    temporal: Siege, 1781
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
    topic: Participation, French
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / Naval
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / Naval
  classification: E241.Y6 P55 2018
  classification: 973.3/37
  identifier: 9780525426769
  identifier: 0525426760
  identifier: 9780698153226
  identifier: 2018029041
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180812
    record change date: 20190422103944.0
    record identifier: in00004029275