Within the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (The American Revolution Sequence)

Within the concluding quantity of his acclaimed American Revolution collection, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the thrilling story of the yr that gained the Revolutionary Conflict.
Within the fall of 1780, after 5 irritating years of struggle, George Washington had come to appreciate that the one approach to defeat the British Empire was with the assistance of the French navy. However coordinating his military’s actions with these of a fleet of warships primarily based hundreds of miles away was subsequent to unimaginable. After which, on September 5, 1781, the unimaginable occurred. Acknowledged at the moment as one of the crucial vital naval engagements within the historical past of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake—fought and not using a single American ship—made the following victory of the Individuals at Yorktown a digital inevitability. A riveting and wide-ranging story, stuffed with dramatic, surprising turns, 
Within the Hurricane’s Eye reveals that the destiny of the American Revolution depended, ultimately, on Washington and the ocean.