The Papers of George Washington Volume 30

George Washington

ISBN 10: 0813947650 / ISBN 13: 9780813947655

Published by University of Virginia Press, US, 2022

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This volume 30 of the Revolutionary War series opens in January 1781 with a mutiny in the Continental army's Pennsylvania regiments, presenting Gen. George Washington with one of the most formidable crises of the war. Although a negotiated settlement resolved the problem, he feared the implications for discipline in the rest of the army. Washington's concerns were well founded, as news reached him that the New Jersey troops had followed suit. He sent a detachment of New England troops to put down the rebellion. In the meantime, a coastal storm that damaged British ships offered Washington an opportunity to defeat and capture Benedict Arnold, now in command of British and Loyalist troops in Virginia. The subsequent joint naval and land offensive with the French shifted the main theater of war from New York to the southern states, foreshadowing the coming campaign of Yorktown.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Papers of George Washington Volume 30
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press, US
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813947650
• ISBN 13: 9780813947655
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.56W x 3.18H x 23.5D centimeters 15.56 centimeters width by 3.18 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 559 grams

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This volume 30 of the Revolutionary War series opens in January 1781 with a mutiny in the Continental army’s Pennsylvania regiments, presenting Gen. George Washington with one of the most formidable crises of the war. Although a negotiated settlement resolved the problem, he feared the implications for discipline in the rest of the army. Washington’s concerns were well founded, as news reached him that the New Jersey troops had followed suit. He sent a detachment of New England troops to put down the rebellion. In the meantime, a coastal storm that damaged British ships offered Washington an opportunity to defeat and capture Benedict Arnold, now in command of British and Loyalist troops in Virginia. The subsequent joint naval and land offensive with the French shifted the main theater of war from New York to the southern states, foreshadowing the coming campaign of Yorktown.