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SUMMARY: Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life-- book talk with author Alber
 t Louis Zambone
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LOCATION:100 West Piccadilly St., P. O. Box 58\nWinchester VA 22601
ROOM: Handley Robinson Auditorium
DESCRIPTION:A Major New Biography of a Man of Humble Origins Who Became On
 e of the Great Military Leaders of the American Revolution\r\nAbout this B
 ook\r\nOn January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious Brit
 ish cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed al
 ong with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and 
 executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely l
 iterate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American 
 martial success. Born in 1736, he left home at seventeen and found himself
  in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. There he worked in mills and as a team
 ster, and was recruited for Braddock’s disastrous expedition to take For
 t Duquesne from the French in 1755. When George Washington called for troo
 ps to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select g
 roup of riflemen and headed north. From that moment on, Morgan’s presenc
 e made an immediate impact on the battlefield and on his superiors. Washin
 gton soon recognized Morgan’s leadership and tactical abilities. When Mo
 rgan’s troops blocked the British retreat at Saratoga in 1777, ensuring 
 an American victory, he received accolades from across the colonies.\r\nIn
  Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, the first biography of this iconic f
 igure in forty years, historian Albert Louis Zambone presents Morgan as th
 e quintessential American everyman, who rose through his own dogged determ
 ination from poverty and obscurity to become one of the great battlefield 
 commanders in American history. Using social history and other advances in
  the discipline that had not been available to earlier biographers, the au
 thor provides an engrossing portrait of this storied personality of Americ
 a’s founding era—a common man in uncommon times.\r\nAbout the Author\r
 \nALBERT LOUIS ZAMBONE is host of the popular podcast “Historically Thin
 king.” He earned his PhD in American History from the University of Oxfo
 rd, an MA in Medieval Studies at the Catholic University of America, and a
  BA in History from Johns Hopkins University. He has received a number of 
 scholarships and awards in the field of early American history, including 
 a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. This i
 s his first book.\r\nBooks will be available for purchase provided by The 
 Winchester Book Gallery.
URL:https://www.handleyregional.org/event/daniel-morgan-revolutionary-life
 -book-talk-author-albert-louis-zambone
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