Greatest Fury The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America

Name: Greatest Fury The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America
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ISBN: 9780399585241

ISBN-10: 0399585249

ISBN-13: 9780399585241

Edition: N/A

Authors: William C. Davis

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"Davis's accounts of small fights won by hot blood and cold steel are thrilling."--The Wall Street Journal From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republic It was a battle that could not be won. Outnumbered farmers, merchants, backwoodsmen, smugglers, slaves, and Choctaw Indians, many of them unarmed, were up against the cream of the British army, professional soldiers who had defeated the great Napoleon and set Washington, D.C., ablaze. At stake was nothing less than the future of the vast American heartland, from the Gulf…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/6/2020
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.10" wide x 10.24" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

The author of more than forty books, WILLIAM C. DAVIS is the director of programs at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. He is also chief consultant for the A&E television series Civil War Journal and teaches history at Virginia Tech.