Research Catalog

Title

Anthony Wayne, soldier of the early republic / Paul David Nelson.

Author

Nelson, Paul David, 1941-

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1985.

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Details

Description

x, 368 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Paul David Nelson has written an exciting biography of an exciting figure -- the military hero of the American Revolution and the Indian Wars in the Northwest Territory -- "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Some of his contemporaries called him rash and impetuous, a braggart and a dandy. "More active and enterprising than judicious and cautious" was George Washington's verdict. True, Wayne had a flair for the dramatic and consciously acted the role of swashbuckler, but he proved himself one of the best and most successful military leaders of the early American republic. Despite his reputation for madness, Wayne, as Nelson points out, was a prudent and careful officer whose military record belies the myth. When he ran out of wars to fight, Wayne turned to the political arena. Nelson shows that the qualities which made Wayne a great military leader served him well in politics. He proved himself articulate and shrewd in statecraft in a critical time for the young republic, the years just after ratification of the Constitution. - Publisher.

Subject

• Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796
• United States. Army > Biography
• 1775-1794
• Generals > United States > Biography
• Wayne's Campaign, 1794
• United States > Campaigns > Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 341-357.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Genesis of a solider, 1745-1776 -- Canada and Ticonderoga, 1776-1777 -- Trials in Pennsylvania, 1777 -- Valley Forge and Monmouth, 1777-1779 -- Stony Point and stormy politics, 1779-1780 -- Mutiny, 1780-1781 -- The Virginia adventure, 1781 -- Southern triumph, 1781-1783 -- Politics and debt, 1783-1786 -- Redemption, 1787-1792 -- Commander of the legion, 1792-1793 -- Fallen timbers, 1793-1794 -- Peace in the northwest, 1794-1795 -- Good soldier's reward, 1795-1796.

ISBN

0253307511

LCCN

^^^84048543^

OCLC

• 11518827
• SCSB-11000668

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library