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100 1  O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. 
245 14 The men who lost America :|bBritish leadership, the 
       American Revolution, and the fate of the empire /|cAndrew 
       Jackson O'Shaughnessy. 
264  1 New Haven :|bYale University Press,|c[2013] 
300    xiv, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c27 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent. 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Pt. I. The view from London. "The tyrant": George III ; 
       The prime minister: Lord North -- pt. II. Victory and 
       defeat in the north (1776-1778). The peace commissioners?:
       the Howe brothers ; "The old gamester": John Burgoyne ; 
       "The Achilles of the American war": Lord George Germain --
       pt. III. Victory and defeat in the south (1778-1781). "The
       scapegoat": Sir Henry Clinton ; "Bagging the fox": Charles,
       Earl Cornwallis -- pt. IV. Victory against France and 
       Spain (1782). "Saint George": Sir George Rodney ; "Jemmy 
       Twitcher": The Earl of Sandwich. 
520    "The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat 
       for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held 
       that incompetent military commanders and political leaders
       in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This 
       intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving 
       together the personal stories of ten prominent men who 
       directed the British dimension of the war, historian 
       Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and 
       uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were 
       able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked 
       biographical chapters, the author follows the course of 
       the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime 
       Minister Lord North, military leaders including General 
       Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the 
       most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were 
       frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American
       city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling 
       political complexities at home, combined with the fervency
       of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war
       effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment 
       of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved 
       victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping 
       intact what remained of the British Empire"--|cProvided by
       publisher. 
610 10 Great Britain.|bArmy|xHistory|yRevolution, 1775-1783. 
650  0 Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815|xParticipation, British. 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yRevolution, 1775-1783|xBritish 
       forces. 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yRevolution, 1775-1783|xCampaigns. 
651  0 Great Britain|xPolitics and government|y1760-1820. 
830  0 Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and 
       history.