Benjamin Lincoln in the American Revolution

On this definitive biography of one in all America’s most necessary however least identified Revolutionary Battle generals, David B. Mattern tells the life story of Benjamin Lincoln, a affluent farmer who left the consolation of his Massachusetts dwelling to turn into a nationwide hero in America’s battle for independence. Mattern’s account of the citizen-soldier who served as George Washington’s second-in-command at Yorktown and as secretary at battle from 1781 to 1783 revisits the challenges, sacrifices, triumphs, and defeats that formed Lincoln’s evolution from prosperous middle-aged household man to pillar of a dynamic republic. Along with providing new insights into management in the course of the Revolutionary interval, Lincoln’s life so mirrored his instances that it supplies a possibility to inform the story of the American Revolution in a recent, compelling method.