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Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America
By Stockwell, Mary
- ISBN
- 9780300214758
- Publisher
- Yale Univ.
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Reviewed on March 1, 2018 | Social Sciences
Stockwell (history, Lourdes Univ.; The Other Trail of Tears) writes the biography of Gen. Anthony Wayne (1745–96), who, according to the author, solidified President George Washington's legacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. After a crushing defeat in southern Ohio, where almost 1,000 soldiers under the command of Gen. Arthur St. Clair died at the hands of Native Americans, Washington was forced to replace St. Clair with someone who coul...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
