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Brothers at arms:american Independence and the Men Of France and Spain Who Saved It
[Paperback - 2017]
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Category: History
Additional Category: European History - Military History
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9781101910306 | Pages: 464
Shipping Weight: .386 | Dimensions: 5.26 x 1.01 x 7.98 inches

Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History

Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award


At the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the American colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts Larrie Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have succeeded.
 
Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.

Larrie D. Ferreiro FRHistS received his PhD in the History of Science and Technology from Imperial College London.He teaches history and engineering at George Mason University in Virginia and the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has served for over forty years in the US Navy, US Coast Guard and Department of Defense, and was an exchange engineer in the French Navy.He is the author ofChurchill's American Arsenal: he Partnership Behind the Innovations that Won World War Two; Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It; Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World; and Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1800.

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