x, 390 p. illus., facsim., map (on lining papers) ports. 25 cm.
Series
[His George Washington, v. 1]
Notes
"Source references": p. 361-377.
Summary
This is the first of 4 volumes by this author on the life of Washington. It deals with his life from birth until the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
A detailed account of the engagements around Whitemarsh, PA, December 5-8 1777, which ended with Washington's forces retiring to Valley Forge. "After the reverses at Brandywine, Paoli and Germantown, it was significant that the skirmishes around Whitemarsh constituted an important moral victory for the American cause, for had General Howe succeeded in destroying the Continental Army by his well planned surprise attack, there might very well have been no Valley Forge!" [from the foreward]
