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Tempest At Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly. David A. Welker. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press (2002). 279 pp. 11 maps.

This is a review and summary of David A. Welker’s Tempest At Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly. Mr. Welker’s book is one of three on the Battle of Chantilly that appeared from 2002-2003. The others include Paul Taylor’s He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill and Charles V. Mauro’s The Battle of Chantilly (Ox Hill: A Monumental Storm). After having read the books by Mr. Taylor and Mr. Welker (and after hearing that Mr. Mauro’s book is less than 100 pages long), I have come to the conclusion that Welker’s book comes the closest to being a definitive study of the battle. This is not to say that Paul Taylor’s book is “badâ€

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<br />This is one of the great tragic examples of economic development in our nation. The site of this battle is about 5 miles from my house in Fairfax County, VA. There is a strip mall on the site now with one, maybe two, minor historical markers informing grocery shoppers and movie-goers that over 1,000 Americans died on the site.

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Phil,

It is definitely sad. I could smack myself for not mentioning the preservation debacle there in a more prominent way in the review. Places like Chantilly should be protected rather than built over with the latest Starbucks, McDonalds, and a movie theater. Developers who are after the last buck they can possibly make at the expense of historical places anger me greatly.

-Brett Schulte
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