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03118aam a2200241 4500 001 16A6D774373911E9B7E2BD1697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190223010048 008 180724s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0374537844 pbk. : 020 $a 9780374537845 pbk. : 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Hogeland, William. 245 1 $a Autumn of the Black Snake : George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne, and the Invasion That Opened the West. 250 $a Reprint. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar Straus & Giroux, $c 2018. 300 $a 447 pages. 500 $a The forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian war When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic soon found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands. In 1791, years of skirmishes, raids, and quagmire climaxed in the grisly defeat of American militiamen by a brilliantly organized confederation of Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware Indians. With nearly one thousand U.S. casualties, this was the worst defeat the nation would ever suffer at native hands. Americans were shocked, perhaps none more so than their commander in chief, George Washington, who saw in the debacle an urgent lesson: the United States needed an army. Autumn of the Black Snake tells the overlooked story of how Washington achieved his aim. In evocative and absorbing prose, William Hogeland conjures up the woodland battles and the hardball politics that formed the Legion of the United States, our first true standing army. His memorable portraits of leaders on both sidesâfrom the daring war chiefs Blue Jacket and Little Turtle to the doomed commander Richard Butler and a steely, even ruthless Washingtonâdrive a tale of horrific violence, brilliant strategizing, stupendous blunders, and valorous deeds. This sweeping account, at once exciting and dark, builds to a crescendo as Washington and Alexander Hamilton, at enormous risk, outmaneuver Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other skeptics of standing armiesâand Washington appoints the seemingly disreputable Anthony Wayne, known as Mad Anthony, to lead the legion. Wayne marches into the forests of the Old Northwest, where the very Indians he is charged with defeating will bestow on him, with grudging admiration, a new name: the Black Snake. Autumn of the Black Snake is a dramatic work of military and political history, told in a colorful, sometimes startling blow-by-blow narrative. It is also an original interpretation of how greed, honor, political beliefs, and vivid personalities converged on the killing fields of the Ohio valley, where the United States Army would win its first victory, and in so doing destroy the coalition of Indians who came closer than any, before or since, to halting the nationâs westward expansion. 500 $a Revolutionary War. 541 $d 20180725. 941 $a 1 952 $l TXPC862 $d 20190223021636.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=16A6D774373911E9B7E2BD1697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search