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by Thomas Fleming

Author:	Thomas Fleming
Subcategory:	Americas
Language:	English
Publisher:	Smithsonian; First Edition edition (October 9, 2007)
Pages:	368 pages
Category:	History
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The Perils of Peace book. This book is about the period between the surrender at Yorktown 2010 – 10 - The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown

The Perils of Peace book. This book is about the period between the surrender at Yorktown 2010 – 10 - The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown. Thomas Fleming (Author) 2008 368 pages. The British forces under LTG Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown on the 19th of October 1781. The Treaty of Paris officially ending the conflict between the 13 independent states and the British crown was signed on the 13th of September in 1783 (ratification documents were exchanged on the 12th of May 1784.

Fleming, Thomas J. Publication date 1st Smithsonian Books ed. External-identifier. urn:oclc:record:1036835283. Publication date. A potentially ruinous victory - Diplomats in distress - An empire on the brink - The art of making something out of nothing - Uncrowning a king - Men talk peace but there is no peace - Loose cannons front and center - A peace that surpasses understanding - Will it be peace-. or civil war? - - A runaway Congress vs. a berserk Parliament - George Washington's tears. 1st Smithsonian Books ed.

In his riveting new book, Thomas Fleming moves elegantly between the key players in this drama and shows that the . On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown. But the future of the 13 former colonies was far from clear.

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I recently finished Thomas Fleming's book, The Perils of Peace.

I recently finished Thomas Fleming's book, The Perils of Peace. In our concentrated and abbreviated high school American history lessons we normally learn of Cornwallis' defeat as the end of the war and skip directly to Treaty of Paris signaling the final peace.

This book is an easy read, and a very useful expansion of the History of America. The Perils of Peace: America8217;s Struggle for Survival After Yorktown. I like the way that it was organized and I plan to get a hard copy for my permanent library. It helps to remember that, "If you have to be in a Revolution, try to avoid being on the loosing side.

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On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown

On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown. A 13,000-man British army still occupied New York City, and another 13,000 regulars and armed loyalists were scattered from Canada to Savannah, Georgia.

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On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown. But the future of the 13 former colonies was far from clear. A 13,000 man British army still occupied New York City, and another 13,000 regulars and armed loyalists were scattered from Canada to Savannah, Georgia. Meanwhile, Congress had declined to a mere 24 members, and the national treasury was empty. The American army had not been paid for years and was on the brink of mutiny.

In Europe, America's only ally, France, teetered on the verge of bankruptcy and was soon reeling from a disastrous naval defeat in the Caribbean. A stubborn George III dismissed Yorktown as a minor defeat and refused to yield an acre of "my dominions" in America. In Paris, Ambassador Benjamin Franklin confronted violent hostility to France among his fellow members of the American peace delegation.

In his riveting new book, Thomas Fleming moves elegantly between the key players in this drama and shows that the outcome we take for granted was far from certain. Not without anguish, General Washington resisted the urgings of many officers to seize power and held the angry army together until peace and independence arrived. With fresh research and masterful storytelling, Fleming breathes new life into this tumultuous but little known period in America's history.

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Thorgahuginn

This is the best book I have read on the two year period of America's history starting just after Washington's victory over Cornwallis at Yorktown and concluding with his retirement to Mount Vernon after the final Treaty of Paris is executed. Others have said it before but the profusion of individual special interests, the self-interested sovereignty of the individual States and the complete lack of a functioning Congress to even execute the American Revolution's Peace Treaty almost assured the collapse of the United States into vicious civil war before the new nation was formally recognized by the rest of the world!

Incredibly, the first Continental Congress required unanimity, total agreement of all the States, before binding legislation on all the States could be adopted. Time and again Rhode Island, the smallest, would go out of their way to obfuscate legislation designed promote the common good. So acrimonious was Rhode Island that not only was the Continental Army not paid during the war, the Army was sent home, disbanded, without receiving its back pay or promised benefits. Yes, that's right; Congress welched on their obligations to the soldiers who fought to gain our independence, sending them home without their pay, food, transportation, medicines or clothing. And remember, the soldiers walked back then, hundreds and hundreds of miles to their homes without so much as a by-your-leave!

Informative, enormously entertaining and well written in the extreme, this spellbinding work is a fascinating look at how the United States could have fallen into the Terror that plagued France after its Revolution. This is a work to savor and enjoy. We were an angel in the whirlwind and it was all of our own making.

Naktilar

This book does not tell a seldom told tale-it tells a NEVER told tale. All other books of America's creation skip over the period after Yorktown and go straight to the period after the Constitution was written(a few books tell about the writing of the Constitution). This book is about the period after Yorktown to the writting of the peace treaty that ended the war. What this book shows was that if the British had kept on the offensive after Yorktown they would have won the war. Washington,s army was starving(worse than Valley Forge) and the troops were going home in droves before they died of hunger. This is only part of the history-I want you to read this book to find out how close America came to remaining a British Colony. Read it and you will discover many things about America's birth you do not now know.

Kare

Slow-paced, but very thorough historical record of the events that made 13 colonies into a nation. If you thought you knew anything about the period between the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the adoption of the Constitution, you really didn't. Fascinating. But perhaps best enjoyed when sipped slowly rather than chugged all at once.

Negal

In school they never taught how fraught with drama and insecurity the end of the Revolutionary War was. This book goes on to great detail but is very readable.

Wafi

This is a book about extraordinary people, not only Washington and Franklin, but lesser known figures and the militia. I want to know more about poor Thomas Paine (I pity the man) and Franklin's "turncoat" son. I want to know why the militia didn't mutiny like was threatened so often. A book like this leads to other books and stimulates the mind.
It is well organized into subchapters that allow the reader to digest bite size pieces.
Improvements? I'd like a glossary of people. At times, it was hard to follow everything that was going on between Parliament and our ineffective Continental Congress. (Did these men actually want independence or not. I got to read more about this group.) And even though the timeline was only a couple of years, a monthly milestone chart would have helped.
The book gets bogged down, I think, in the chapter that dealt with the debates in Parliament. Here is where a name chart would have been helpful to understand all the players.
I haven't read a lot about this period within our history but I am glad that this is one of the first that I had read. It will lead to others.