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#1 On September 15, 1779, the French minister to the United States, Chevalier de la Luzerne, arrived at Fishkill, New York, to meet with George Washington. Washington was the one steering the boat.
#2 When Washington was 11 years old, his brother offered him a way out. He could be appointed to a British naval vessel and escape the possessive clutches of his widowed mother.
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"The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships...
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[2018]
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In a narrative that moves from the ship crowded waters off Newport, Rhode Island, to a wooded hillside near North Carolina's Guilford Courthouse, to the Dutch storehouses on the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius, Philbrick narrates the pivotal naval battle that brought the end of America's long, elusive path to independence. It was an improbable triumph made possible by Washington's brilliant strategy, leadership, and revolutionary use of sea power....
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