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Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan de Joseph Wheelan

Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan

Autor Joseph Wheelan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2013
Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of twentieth-century warfare.

After the war, Sheridan ruthlessly suppressed the raiding Plains Indians much as he had the Confederates, by killing warriors and burning villages, but he also defended reservation Indians from corrupt agents and contractors. Sheridan, an enthusiastic hunter and conservationist, later ordered the US cavalry to occupy and operate Yellowstone National Park to safeguard it from commercial exploitation.

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ISBN-13: 9780306821981
ISBN-10: 0306821982
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 140 x 222 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press

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In this compelling and crisply written biography, historian Joseph Wheelan examines the life and wars of the indomitable General Phil Sheridan, whose leadership and aggressive tactics helped win the Civil War, crush the marauding Plains Indians,and save Yellowstone.