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03595aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 CCA8BE44760D11E987FF680497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190514010110 008 180822t20182018pauabf b 001 0beng d 020 $a 1594163154 020 $a 9781594163159 040 $a ILPML $b eng $e rda $c ILPML $d BDX $d YDX $d GO9 $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d ILPML $d CZA $d MNN $d VKM $d UAP $d PFLCL $d HEV $d JTH $d NDD $d PX0 $d ZCU $d KLP $d JQJ $d OCLCO $d PAU $d JSY $d OCLCO $d UAB $d PUL $d STF $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a E207.M8 $b Z36 2018 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Zambone, Albert Louis, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Daniel Morgan : $b a revolutionary life / $c Albert Louis Zambone. 264 1 $a Yardley, Pennsylvania : $b Westholme Publishing, LLC, $c [2018] 300 $a xx, 376 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-361) and index. 505 0 $a Shenandoah -- The call to arms -- Victory -- Away, you rolling river. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Morgan, Daniel, $d 1736-1802. 610 10 $a United States. $b Continental Army $v Biography. 650 0 $a Generals $z United States $v Biography. 650 4 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military. 650 4 $a HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). 650 4 $a HISTORY / Military / United States. 600 17 $a Morgan, Daniel, $d 1736-1802. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00199864 610 17 $a United States. $b Continental Army. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00531979 650 7 $a Generals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00939841 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 4 $a Biography. 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013637.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190514013727.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CCA8BE44760D11E987FF680497128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search