The Long Retreat: The Calamitous Defense of New Jersey, 1776

by Arthur S. Lefkowitz

Book Overview

Winner of the 1998 Best Book on the Revolution published in 1998 by the Board of Governors of the American Revolution Round Table Named 1999 Honor Book by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

On the morning of November 20, 1776, General Charles Cornwallis overran patriot positions at Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. The attack threw George Washington's army into turmoil. Thus began an American retreat across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813527597
• ISBN13: 9780813527598
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"