The Compleat Victory

Is there a need for yet another history of the Battle of Saratoga? The answer is yes, and it is Kevin J. Weddle's Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution. . . .The Compleat Victory is the most thoroughgoing and complete study of Saratoga. Weddle's research is sound and wide ranging, his analyses and conclusions are compelling, and his writing is engaging. He weaves strategic, operational, and tactical decisions, actions, and outcomes together seamlessly. Kevin J. Weddle has written the authoritative account of the Saratoga campaign.

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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize

Auteur
Kevin J. Weddle is Professor of Military Theory and Strategy and Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A West Point graduate, he served in the US Army for 28 years on active duty in command and staff positions in the United States and overseas, including Operations Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom, before retiring as a colonel.

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Seldom in history has a single military campaign had such immediate and far-ranging consequences as the series of battles and skirmishes known as "Saratoga." In the spring of 1777, determined to end the fighting once and for all, the British devised what they believed a war-winning strategy. By early fall, their entire northern army had surrendered. Kevin J. Weddle offers the most thorough account to date, showing how an operation that begin with such promise for the British turned to disaster, and why the underestimated American forces triumphed so decisively. Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolution, boosting Patriot confidence, demoralizing the Loyalist cause, and leading directly to the Franco-American alliance that would eventually secure independence. It was, as one American general called it, "The compleat victory."