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Daniel Morgan

A Revolutionary Life

by Albert Louis Zambone
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A Major New Biography of a Man of Humble Origins Who Became One of the Great Military Leaders of the American Revolution
On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis's troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. Born in New Jersey in 1736, he left home at seventeen and found himself in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There he worked in mills and as a teamster, and was recruited for Braddock's disas­trous expedition to take Fort Duquesne from the French in 1755. When George Washington called for troops to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select group of riflemen and headed north. From that moment on, Morgan's presence made an immediate impact on the battlefield and on his superiors. Washington soon recognized Morgan's leadership and tactical abilities. When Morgan's troops blocked the British retreat at Saratoga in 1777, ensuring an American victory, he received accolades from across the colonies.
In Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, the first biogra­phy of this iconic figure in forty years, historian Albert Louis Zambone presents Morgan as the quintessential American everyman, who rose through his own dogged determination from poverty and obscurity to become one of the great battlefield commanders in American history. Using social history and other advances in the discipline that had not been available to earlier biographers, the author provides an engrossing portrait of this storied per­sonality of America's founding era—a common man in uncommon times.

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    December 12, 2018

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      December 1, 2018
      Few Americans today recognize the name of Daniel Morgan, yet he was one of the most significant leaders of the American Revolution, whose battlefield accomplishments turned the tide. Unlike George Washington and other colonial officers, Morgan had no place among the landed gentry and worked as a teamster in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Something of a rebel and resister of authority, he was a difficult soldier who was severely whipped for slapping a superior officer. But he became something of a hero despite being taken prisoner at the Battle of Quebec, a strange foray that Zambone details. Released from captivity, Morgan made his way south to join Washington's forces. After briefly withdrawing from the army, Morgan returned to service as a brigadier general and brilliantly defeated a superior British force at the decisive Battle of Cowpens. Zambone makes clear the critical role of logistics and logistical support in the success of any army. Military historians will appreciate Zambone's detailed analysis of the tactics that Morgan employed to assure the revolution's military triumph.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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