Johnston, Henry P. The Storming of Stony Point on the Hudson, Midnight, July 15, 1779: Its Importance in the Light of Unpublished Documents. New York: James T. White & Co., 1900. First Edition. [10861]
Green cloth with gilt titles, light wear, clean spine 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, top page edges gilt. Ex library with bookplate, a few stamps (including "discarded"), removed pocket at back. Frontispiece portrait of Anthony Wayne, folding map in colors, nine additional plates. 231 clean pages, including index. Good. Hardcover.
"The storming of Stony Point is more or less vaguely recalled as one of the cleverest exploits of the Revolutionary War...No one appreciated the affair more thoroughly than Washington, who had worked out the plan in detail for Wayne to execute, and who on the following day rode down to the scene to express his thanks to his victorious troops...It proved to be decisive for the year, which at that stage of the contest meant much for the American cause...
"For the first time we get at the official correspondence on the other side which is exceptionally interesting and historically important. What the English King, his War Minister, their Commander in America...had to say about the situation and how they failed to win success and took defeat, we have never satisfactorily known. With these unearthed contributions the true perspective comes out." - Preface.
