Renegade Revolutionary The Life Of General Charles Lee
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780814767658
Description: Charles Lee, a former British army officer turned revolutionary, was one of the earliest advocates for American independence. Papas shows that few American revolutionaries shared Lee's radical political outlook, and his confidence that the American Revolution could be won primarily by the militia (or irregulars) rather than a centralized regular army.