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 12 months that gained the Revolutionary Battle. Within the fall of 1780, after 5 irritating years of battle, George Washington had come to comprehend 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 not possible. After which, on September 5, 1781, the not possible occurred. Acknowledged at present as one of the vital essential naval engagements within the historical past of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake—fought with no single American ship—made the next victory of the Individuals at Yorktown a digital inevitability. A riveting and wide-ranging story, filled with dramatic, sudden turns, Within the Hurricane’s Eye reveals that the destiny of the American Revolution depended, in the long run, on Washington and the ocean.