Edward G. Lengel is an award-winning historian, lecturer, and author of many books, including Inventing George Washington: America's Founder in Myth and Memory and General George Washington: A Military Life, finalist for the George Washington Book Prize. As editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington project at the University of Virginia, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
"Edward G. Lengel's narrative on the Battles of Connecticut Farms and Springfield in June 1780 effectively shows how, despite a lack of men and supplies, the Continental Army and New Jersey militiamen under the command of Generals George Washington and Nathanael Greene were able to hold off the better trained and armed British, Hessian, and Loyalist troops under the command of General Wilhelm von Knyphausen. Drawing on multiple primary sources, Lengel's narrative describes the military operations around Connecticut Farms and Springfield, New Jersey, and how the success of the Americans would carry over to military operations throughout the remainder of the war in the southern colonies. . . . The contribution of this work and those to come in the "Small Battles" series are essential to understanding how even the smallest of engagements had a meaningful impact on military operations during the American Revolution."--Journal of Military History "Edward G. Lengel brings to life the June 1780 engagements that marked the British Army's last major pitched battles in the North. Lengel captures the essence of a critical period of the war and how it played out in a series of brief but sharp encounters in central New Jersey. While drawing on established historiography of the battles, the author incorporates lesser used accounts, particularly those of the Hessians and General Knyphausen himself. Complemented by a series of contemporary and modern maps, the engagements of Connecticut Farms and Springfield are made easy to follow in a book that should make an excellent addition to any Revolutionary library."--Todd W. Braisted, author of Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City
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