title: The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution
author:  Thomas Fleming 
description: "[A] giant of the literature of American history...Thomas Fleming has created a detailed account of the shifting strategic thinking of George Washington as the commander of the Continental Army...Expertly crafted...Entertaining."<b>Roanoke Times</b><br /><br />"Fleming, who died last July after celebrating his 90th birthday, was the kind of writer who made other writers feel lazy and shiftless...This volume, composed near the end of his ninth decade, is a fitting capstone to a remarkable career...It is an idiosyncratic treatment which celebrates certain key events while passing over others with a quick wave of the pen. Yet it offers great pleasures...Fleming's prose shines."<b>Washington Independent Review of Books</b><br /><br /><br />"Fleming to his credit approaches strategy not from the abstract, theoretical perspective of some international relations scholars, but instead from the perspective of an historian analyzing facts and circumstances at specific times in specific places."<b>New York Journal of Books</b><br /><br />"Describing him as a 'thinking general,' Fleming follows Washington on the long campaign from north to south battling his own politicians almost as much as the Royal Army."<b>Milwaukee Shepherd Express</b><br /><br />"There's a lot to like in Thomas Fleming's Strategy of Victory...The book abounds in interesting factoids."<b>San Francisco Book Review</b><br /><br />"[A] fascinating military history from cover to cover, thoroughly accessible to lay readers and historians alike...Highly recommended especially for public and college library collections."<b>Midwest Book Review</b><br /><br />"An outstanding example of a short, comprehensive and original discussion of a complicated issue, distilling its essential points into a readable and fascinating tale."<b>Galveston County Daily News</b><br /><br />"This is classic Fleming, lively and readable and unabashedly pro-George Washington and the American founding. Yet it illuminates the conflicts within the Revolution and debunks several cherished American myths at the same time."<b><i>PJ Media</i></b><br /><br />
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  ## Liberty: 1784
  
  
    
  
  
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  ## Robert Conroy
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Liberty: 1784
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Introduction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  George Washington never suffered a truly catastrophic defeat during the
  revolution, although he certainly had numerous opportunities to fail in a
  manner that would have ended the war.
  
  
  His inexperience as a field general nearly saw his army destroyed at Long
  Island, and it was only good fortune that saw a British relief fleet defeated
  off Yorktown since a second British fleet arrived shortly after Cornwallis’
  surrender. And the other times he took the field to confront the main British
  Army, he was generally less than successful, as with Brandywine, and
  Germantown, while some consider the battle at Monmouth to have been a draw. To
  be fair, he did have his share of victories such as Trenton and Princeton, but
  they were relatively minor actions against smaller segments of the British
  army.
  
  
  