The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 / Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War / which Established the Independence of his Country and First / President of the United States

This volume continues a chronological, documentary account of the central military and political episodes of the American revolutionary struggle under Washington's leadership, recounting campaigns and councils of war, battlefield maneuvers such as the action at Monmouth, the arrest and censure of subordinate commanders, and collaboration with allied French naval forces culminating in operations around Rhode Island and Newport; it interweaves operational narrative with letters, orders, and eyewitness detail to portray strategy, troop movements, hardships, and the command decisions that shaped the continental army's conduct.