Description: "The multi-faceted Revolutionary War career of Benjamin Tallmadge included operations as a dragoon commander, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer, and master of combined land-sea operations. Tallmadge's Revolutionary service graphically illuminates the struggle in the region which witnessed the most continuous, relentless, often pitiless, fighting of the struggle"--
Brief description: Richard F. Welch teaches American and military history at Farmingdale State College, in Farmingdale, New York.
Review Quotes: "highly readable and often lively book"-Strategy Page; "Welch's highly readable and often lively book, the first life of Tallmadge in nearly 70 years, helps rescue this very interesting office from obscurity"-The NYMAS Review.