The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army by Colin G. Calloway (review)

WINTER 2016 71 Gates, Daniel Morgan, and Charles Lee. All would go on to play important roles in America’s revolutionary war. But Preston shows how the battle influenced more than just command figures. It also “anticipated many of the political and social divisions that ultimately sundered the British world,” as American colonials witnessed firsthand the vulnerability of the British army while becoming more acutely aware of their significant differences from the British (328). For these reasons and many others, Braddock’s Defeat is without question the new standard account for the Battle of the Monongahela. It is a worthy and enlightening addition to Oxford’s Pivotal Moments in American History series that will prove useful and instructive for scholars and students of the early American frontier for generations to come. Daniel P. Barr Robert Morris University