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George Washington's Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson & the Trapping of Cornwallis Kindle Edition

by Richard Borkow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
A look at Westchester County's place in the American Revolution and Washington's plan to trick Cornwallis and march to Yorktown.

During the summer of 1781, the armies of Generals Washington and Rochambeau were encamped in lower Westchester County at Dobbs Ferry, Ardsley, Hartsdale, Edgemont, and White Plains. It was a time of military deadlock and grim prospects for the allied Americans and French. Washington recognized that a decisive victory was needed, or America would never achieve independence. In August, he marched these soldiers to Virginia to face General Cornwallis and his redcoats. Washington risked all on this march. Its success required secrecy, and he prepared an elaborate deception to convince the British that Manhattan, not Virginia, was the target of the allied armies. Local historian Richard Borkow presents this exciting story of the Westchester encampment and Washington's great gamble that saved the United States.

Praise for George Washington's Westchester Gamble
"Borkow has done a first-rate job of telling the story of the American Revolution in Westchester County and putting dramatic events there in the context of the larger war--especially the decision to march to Yorktown." —Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace
"Just when it seemed that the subject of the American Revolution had been thoroughly explored, Richard Borkow has given us a fresh look at the war's culminating event—the 1781 march of French and American troops to Virginia." —Joseph Wheelan, author of Jefferson's War and Mr. Adams's Last Crusade
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    239 pages
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    English
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    The History Press
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    April 13, 2021
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Richard Borkow is the village historian of Dobbs Ferry, New York, a trustee of the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society and editor of the website www.VillageHistorian.org. In 2009 and 2010, he was project director for Noted Historians Reveal Dobbs Ferry's Historic River Connections, a series of video interviews on YouTube with distinguished historians, including Pulitzer Prize recipient, David Hackett Fischer. In the interview entitled, American Revolution: The Decision Which Won the War, Dr. Fischer speaks about the dramatic "moment of choice" in Westchester County which led, two months later, to the decisive Franco-American victory over Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxX0Kzfyeyk.
That same "moment of choice," and the great risks that were associated with it, are explored in detail in George Washington's Westchester Gamble.

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Westchester Magazine feature article, July 2013:

Westchester County's Role in the Revolutionary War:

http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/July-2013/Westchester-County-New-Yorks-Role-in-the-Revolutionary-War/

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