Revolution on the Hudson Paperback by George C. Daughan

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2017-06-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 432 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393354140
• Item Weight: 340.2 grams
• Dimensions: 20.9 x 14.0 x 2.67 cm

The riveting untold story of the fight for the Hudson River Valley, the decisive campaign of the Revolutionary War.

No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City and its surroundings. Military leaders of the time—and generations of scholars since—believed that the Hudson River Valley was America’s geographic jugular, which, if cut, would quickly bleed the rebellion to death. In Revolution on the Hudson, prize-winning historian George C. Daughan makes the daring new argument that this strategy would never have worked, and that dogged pursuit of dominance over the Hudson ultimately cost Britain the war. This groundbreaking naval history offers a thrilling response to one of our most vexing historical questions: How could a fledgling nation have defeated the most powerful war machine of the era?

About the Author

George C. Daughan holds a PhD from Harvard University, where he studied under Henry Kissinger. One of his previous books, If By Sea, won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, and he has been honored with the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the USS Constitution Museum for his work as a naval scholar. He lives in New Hampshire.