GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FINEST HOUR George Washington famously lost more
battles than he won as a battlefield commander during the
Revolutionary War, and he has often been presented as a better
administrator than a tactician. His performance during the 1776-1777
Trenton-Princeton campaign, however, was brilliant by any standards
and is still taught to cadets at military academies today. Edward G.
Lengel, author of General George Washington: A Military Life, tells
the story of this campaign and its place in Washington's military
legacy. After his lecture, Ed will be available to sign copies of his
books, First Entrepreneur, and a limited number of General George
Washington: A Military Life. Edward G. Lengel is Chief Historian of
the White House Historical Association. He received his B.A. in
history from George Mason University in 1991, and his Ph.D in history
from the University of Virginia in 1998. For many years he was
Professor and Director of the Washington Papers project. Lengel has
written several award-winning books, including First Entrepreneur: How
George Washington Built His – and the Nation’s Prosperity (2016),
Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat: 1917-1918
(2015), To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne 1918 (2006), and General
George Washington: A Military Life (2005). He writes regularly for
Military History Quarterly, American History and other periodicals,
and has made television and radio appearances on The History Channel,
Fox News, and National Public Radio.
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