Revolution on the Hudson
New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence
by George C. Daughan
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appears in Revolutions, History, and Nonfiction.
No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City and its surroundings. Military leaders of the time?and generations of scholars since?believed that the Hudson River Valley was America?s geographic jugular, which, if cut, would quickly bleed the rebellion to death. In Revolution on the Hudson, prizewinning...
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