
The Compleat Victory
Saratoga and the American Revolution
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In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany. When British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga with unexpected ease in July of 1777, it looked as if it was a matter of time before they would break the rebellion in the North. Less than three and a half months later, however, a combination of the Continental Army and Militia forces forced Burgoyne to surrender his entire army. The American victory stunned the world and changed the course of the war.
In the end, British plans were undone by a combination of distance, geography, logistics, and an underestimation of American leadership and fighting ability. The outcome forced the British to rethink their strategy, inflamed public opinion in England against the war, boosted Patriot morale, and led directly to the Franco-American alliance. Weddle unravels the web of contingencies and the play of personalities that ultimately led to what one American general called "the Compleat Victory".
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When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century.
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Best book of this early battle
- De Bradley Behrhorst en 09-02-22
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Collision of Empires
- The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
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The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires - Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany - remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely expose of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front - a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever.
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Best book non-fiction book ever on the Eastern Front in 1914
- De HistoricalReader en 01-31-18
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The 10 Biggest Civil War Blunders
- De: Edward H. Bonekemper III
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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What makes the Civil War so fascinating is that it presents an endless number of "what if" scenarios - moments when the outcome of the war (and therefore world history) hinged on a single small mistake or omission. In this audiobook, Civil War historian Edward Bonekemper highlights the 10 biggest Civil War blunders, focusing in on intimate moments of military indecision and inaction involving great generals like Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and William T. Sherman as well as less effective generals such as George B. McClellan and Benjamin Butler.
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Mistakes or Missed Opportunities a Better Title
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The Road to Guilford Courthouse
- The American Revolution in the Carolinas
- De: John Buchanan
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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This brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles highlights just how crucial these individuals were in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the American Civil War.
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Amazing Book
- De Anthony S. en 04-01-21
De: John Buchanan
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All the King's Men
- The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo
- De: Saul David
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Saul David's comprehensive history, All the King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo, read by the actor Sean Barrett. "The British soldier," wrote a Prussian officer who served with Wellington, "is vigorous, well fed, by nature highly brave and intrepid, trained to the most vigorous discipline, and admirably well-armed...
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A grand epic
- De Mark Henman en 09-03-12
De: Saul David
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- De: John Hussey
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 34 h y 6 m
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The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them.
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Excellent: Where is Volume 2
- De History Reader en 12-11-20
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1781
- The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War
- De: Robert Tonsetic
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
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The Treaty of Paris, in 1783, formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination, and sacrifice of its leaders and citizenry ensured its survival.
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Pedestrian prose
- De C. en 08-14-13
De: Robert Tonsetic
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General George Washington
- A Military Life
- De: Edward G. Lengel
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
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This comprehensive military biography of George Washington entertainingly examines Washington's capacity as a military leader. Acclaimed historian Edward G. Lengel, an associate editor of the University of Virginia's Papers of George Washington project, bases this engrossing work on the most extensive collection of Washington's personal correspondence.
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an embarassment of richs about the Revolution
- De D. Littman en 07-03-05
De: Edward G. Lengel
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The American Civil War
- A Military History
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
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For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known to us by name.
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A Novel Approach (As Opposed to Novelistic)
- De margot en 11-18-12
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Almost a Miracle
- The American Victory in the War of Independence
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: David Baker
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In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle."
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Dramatic Backstory of The War for Independence
- De Amazon Customer en 11-22-15
De: John Ferling
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The American Heritage History of World War I
- De: S. L. A. Marshall
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
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Drawing on a lifetime of military experience, Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, "one of our most distinguished military writers" ( New York Times), delivers this unflinching history of the war that was supposed to end all wars. From the perspective of more than half a century, Marshall examines the blunders and complacency that turned what everyone thought would be a brief campaign and an easy victory into a relentless four-year slaughter that left 10 million dead and 20 million wounded.
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WW1 from American point of view
- De Jean en 10-19-12
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- De: Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia. A small Scandinavian nation, with at most one and a half million people and scant internal resources of its own, there was small logic to how Sweden could become the dominant power on the Continent.
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An author with an idea but not the skills
- De chris loomis en 08-07-15
De: Henrik O. Lunde
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Grant
- De: Jean Edward Smith
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
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In this comprehensive biography, Jean Edward Smith reconciles conflicting assessments of Grant's life, arguing that Grant is greatly underrated as a president. Following the turmoil of Andrew Johnson's administration, Grant guided the nation through the post-Civil War era, overseeing Reconstruction of the South and enforcing the freedoms of new African-American citizens. His presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories, for the same strength of character that made him successful on the battlefield also characterized his years in the White House.
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Splendid Biography Inspires New Respect for Grant
- De John David en 10-07-19
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Today, Germantown is a busy neighborhood in Philadelphia. On October 4, 1777, it was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital whose surrounding fields and streets witnessed one of the largest battles of the American Revolution. The bloody battle represented George Washington's attempt to recapture Philadelphia but has long been overshadowed by better-known events like Brandywine, Saratoga, and Valley Forge.
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Simon Girty
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During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was influential in convincing the tribes to fight for the British.
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John Jay
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> The New York Times hailed this trilogy as “one of the greatest historical accomplishments of our time”. With stunning detail and insights, America’s foremost Civil War historian recreates the war from its opening months to its final, bloody end. Each volume delivers a complete listening experience. The Coming Fury (Volume 1) covers the split Democratic Convention in the spring of 1860 to the first battle of Bull Run.
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
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In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.
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The First Congress
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The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed - as many at the time feared it would - it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today.
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Power and Liberty
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The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism - the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority, and written constitutions.
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Great insight to the tactical and strategic impacts of Saratoga.
Excellent blend of background, context and action so as not to bog down the narrative. I hope there are more works coming from this author.
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- Craig A. Tyler
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Excellent resource
This is my first book covering the Saratoga campaign but it had everything you need to understand the battles, the commanders, the battlefields and the issues on both sides. A very thorough book, that I am going to use as a reference in the future. The narrator was good as well.
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Excellent Book
This is a well told story about a critical event in American history. It is highly recommended.
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- Astrobuf
- 12-22-23
A reasonable summary of the revolutionary War of the Northern Army
Like many Americans. the depth of my knowledge of the Revolutionary War was pretty thin. This book is a pleasure to listen to and does a good job filling the details of the conflicts that lead to the surrender of Brit Gen Burgoyne. it is written from a "field" perspective and so is thin on the perspectives of Cornwallis, Clinton and Howe.
At least from this books perspective it seems the Britsh Army's leaders largely got their commands based upon peerage more than competence. A cautionary tale to consider in modern times that seem too focused on things other than accomplishment.
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- Martin J Dunleavy
- 10-14-23
Great history of the battle as well as the corresponding campaigns
This book is not just about the battle. It’s about the corresponding campaigns the personalities involved in the overall history just tremendous.
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- WISDOC
- 04-06-21
Good book
I have read almost every book on Saratoga published in the last twenty years and prior good this is almost the best ones.
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