NEW The Battle of Princeton by Samuel Stelle Smith 1st Ed 1967

Description: Samuel Stelle Smith: The Battle of Princeton. First edition (published for the 1968 Triennial Meeting of Delegates of the Society of the Cincinnati). Monmouth Beach, New Jersey: Philip Freneau Press, 1967. Gilt-stamped blue cloth, Cloth Hardcover (Bancroft Book Cloth Devon # 42560) with Gold pictorial Embossed on Cover,, 12-1/4" x 10-1/4", 44 pages, illustrated in black and white. These NEW books are from the remaining original publisher inventory. Shipped USPS Media Mail. Library of Congress #: 67-31149From the foreword: "The usual 'historical' version of the Princeton campaign begins with a chilling description of a gallant, but very amateur, George Washington, almost cornered between the icebound Delaware River and an overwhelming British army. From this closing trap, so the old tales go, Washington is rescued only by the last-minute inspiration of a never quite identified subordinate. "Samuel Stelle Smith's latest careful winnowing of original documentation has moved that moment of national crisis out of legend's dim candlelight into the impartial sunlight of demonstrable fact. Washington, he shows, had a plan whereby he hoped to drive the British back out of New Jersey; and this plan was based on effective intelligence work by a haze of capable American spies. (Somehow, in a period when the American cause seemed slipping through the final stages of disintegration, Washington had organized a first-class espionage system.) What other information Washington needed, he secured through the judicious employment of his tiny detachment of militia cavalry. . . ."

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