This book examines (1) the neglected but decisive role played by guerrillas in the Carolinas in 1780 and 1781, which led to the disastrous retreat of Cornwallis into Yorktown; (2) the 1793 uprisings in western France against the Revolutionary regime, whose conduct foreshadowed Nazi policies during World War II; (3) the French occupation of Spain from 1808 to 1814, from which the name guerrilla derives, and where the Napoleonic Empire suffered its most fatal wound; and (4) guerrilla campaigns in the American Civil War, explaining why Lee's surrender in 1865 failed to unleash the massive guerrilla outbreak feared by Lincoln and Grant. The concluding section compares the experiences of the French in Spain to those of the Soviets in Afghanistan, and the British in the Carolinas to the Americans in Vietnam.
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ANTHONY JAMES JOES is Professor of International Politics at Saint Joseph's University.
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Every American schoolchild once learned the story of General Cornwallis: how he was in command of the largest British force in America south of New York; how in the fall of 1781 Franco-American forces trapped him by land and sea in the little port of Yorktown, Virginia; how when his surrendered army marched out its band played "The World Turned Upside Down"; and how this surrender ensured the independence of the former American colonies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
guerre subversive, infernal columns, guerrilla conflict, republican troops, guerrilla insurgency, civil constitution, seceded states, partisan war Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, Viet Nam, United States, Cold War, Swamp Fox, President Lincoln, War of the Revolution, North America, Oxford University, Nathanael Greene, Abraham Lincoln, General Greene, After Secession, Francis Marion, Military History, Viet Minh, Baton Rouge, Dien Bien Phu, George Washington, Gray Ghosts, History of the Peninsular War, President Davis, Estates General New!
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Every American schoolchild once learned the story of General Cornwallis: how he was in command of the largest British force in America south of New York; how in the fall of 1781 Franco-American forces trapped him by land and sea in the little port of Yorktown, Virginia; how when his surrendered army marched out its band played "The World Turned Upside Down"; and how this surrender ensured the independence of the former American colonies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
guerre subversive, infernal columns, guerrilla conflict, republican troops, guerrilla insurgency, civil constitution, seceded states, partisan war Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, Viet Nam, United States, Cold War, Swamp Fox, President Lincoln, War of the Revolution, North America, Oxford University, Nathanael Greene, Abraham Lincoln, General Greene, After Secession, Francis Marion, Military History, Viet Minh, Baton Rouge, Dien Bien Phu, George Washington, Gray Ghosts, History of the Peninsular War, President Davis, Estates General New!
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- The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre on 7 pages
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln by A. Lincoln on 5 pages
- The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle on 5 pages
- Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings by Roy Basler on 5 pages
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- Beyond Declaring Victory and Coming Home: The Challenges of Peace and Stability Operations by Anthony J. Joes in Back Matter
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