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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire

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The Men Who Lost America offers a fresh and incisive analysis of the American Revolution from the perspective of the British Empire, challenging the widespread notion that Britain's defeat stemmed purely from incompetent leadership.

O’Shaughnessy presents the personal histories of ten prominent British figures—including King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, and leading military commanders—arguing that many were capable and even brilliant, yet ultimately failed owing to systemic, political, logistical, and strategic constraints.

Through richly detailed biographical chapters, the book traces the war’s trajectory: victory after victory by British forces, the capture of American cities, and yet the inability to secure enduring success. The reasons include overstretched logistics across the Atlantic, internal British political turbulence, the mobilization and resolve of American revolutionary forces, and the global strategic entanglements facing Britain (including wars with France and Spain).

In its closing sections, the work reflects on the broader implications: although Britain lost its American colonies, its empire endured elsewhere, highlighting the larger lesson that defeat in America did not represent an inevitable collapse but a complex, contingent failure. The Men Who Lost America thus deepens our understanding of the Revolution by shifting focus from simplistic “British blunder” narratives to the interplay of leadership, institutional circumstance, and historical contingency.

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No. Panggil

973.3\'2-O\'sh-m

Penerbit

NEW HEAVEN : Yale Univ. Press., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

466 hal, 18 x 26 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-3001-9107-3

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Text

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Book

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Bab I The View From London

Bab II Victory And Defeat in The North

Bab III Victory and Defeat in The South

Bab IV Victory Against France and Spain

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