WASHINGTON AND CORNWALLIS
By Benton Rain Patterson
Cooper Square Press (NYP)

WASHINGTON AND CORNWALLIS traces the strategic chess match between the commanding generals that decided the outcome of the American Revolution, culminating in the surrender at Yorktown where Washington checkmated his adversary.

The duel between the two men was fought back and forth up and down the Eastern Seaboard from 1776 to 1781. In the course of the story, the reader is an eyewitness as every critical battle of the Revolution unfolds – the siege of Boston, the Battle of Long Island, the raid on Trenton, the American victories at Princeton and Saratoga, the battle at Monmouth courthouse, the British capture of Philadelphia, the fall of Charleston, Cornwallis’s rampage through the Carolinas, and the final entrapment of the British army in Virginia.

Ben Patterson brings these two brilliant commanders to life as the contest see-saws back and forth over five long years. While of course there have been many books written on the Revolution and many biographies of Washington, this will be the first to focus on the dramatic clash between these two protagonists. Moreover, although every student of American history knows his name, Cornwallis appears as little more than a hapless cardboard foe in most histories of the period. This book will be the first to give him due attention as Washington’s primary and most dangerous enemy.

Patterson is a former staff writer and editor of The New York Times and The Saturday Evening Post. He is the author of Harold and William, the dramatic story of the battle for England in the years 1064 to 1066, published by Cooper Square Press in 2001.

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