Richard Borkow is the village historian of Dobbs Ferry, New York, a
trustee of the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society and editor of the
website www.VillageHistorian.org. In 2009 and 2010, he was project
director for Noted Historians Reveal Dobbs Ferry's Historic River
Connections, a series of video interviews on YouTube with
distinguished historians, including Pulitzer Prize recipient, David
Hackett Fischer. In the interview entitled, American Revolution:
The Decision Which Won the War, Dr. Fischer speaks about the
dramatic moment of choice in Westchester County which led, two
months later, to the decisive Franco-American victory over Lord
Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia: http:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxX0Kzfyeyk.
That same moment of choice, and the great risks that were
associated with it, are explored in detail in George Washington's
Westchester Gamble.
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