Life and Memoirs of the Late Major General Lee, Second in Command to General Washington
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Erscheinungsdatum
20.04.2023
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Patavium PublishingSeitenzahl
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748 KB
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Englisch
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9781805232278
"e;Contains many curious particulars relating to the war between Great Britain and the Colonies. Published under the direction of Edward Langworthy, of Georgia"e; - Sabin. A controversial figure, the DAB calls Charles Lee "e;one of the most extraordinary and contradictory characters in American history."e; ESTC T146543. HOWES L83. SABIN 38903. LARNED 1411Charles Lee (6 February 1732 [O.S. 26 January 1731] - 2 October 1782) was an English-born American military officer who served as a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He also served earlier in the British Army during the Seven Years War. He sold his commission after the Seven Years War and served for a time in the Polish army of King Stanislaus II Augustus.Lee moved to North America in 1773 and bought an estate in western Virginia. When the fighting broke out in the American War of Independence in 1775, he volunteered to serve with rebel forces. Lee's ambitions to become Commander in Chief of the Continental Army were thwarted by the appointment of George Washington to that post.In 1776, forces under his command repulsed a British attempt to capture Charleston, which boosted his standing with the army and Congress. Later that year, he was captured by British cavalry under Banastre Tarleton; he was held by the British as a prisoner until exchanged in 1778. During the Battle of Monmouth later that year, Lee led an assault on the British that miscarried. He was subsequently court-martialed and his military service brought to an end. He died in Philadelphia in 1782.
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