I have read them and found them fascinating. Yes, it is 19th century prose, which modern historians tend to ridicule, but it is good reading - most...
Benedict Arnold's Army is a good book, I agree. I have not read Fusiliers. Stephenson's Patriot Battles is not so good. I have read only half of...
Eric, As you know, I have been looking up this same subject. From what I have found, Stryker's book on the Battle of Monmouth seems the only...
I agree, the French and British and other armies still used the same basic musket used during the 1770's-1780's. And yes, tactics are partially...
Of course, it might be fun to discuss what late 18th century tactics really were, even for the regular soldiers. Tactics by then, it seems were...
Washington did want to create an army that could fight along the same lines as the British, and I would say he partly achieved that goal. Certainly...
I don't know a lot of details, but I believe Hessian prisoners of war were sent to the Shenandoah Valley during the war, many of them captured when...
I agree that the loss of the opportunity to settle the newly won land was a great source of resentment. The colonists largely felt they had fought...
Mark, I would enjoy a discussion of different leaders from the war. Just to offer an opinion, I personally believe Cornwallis was perhaps the least...
I would offer a slightly different opinion on the quality of the generals sent to America. I believe Howe, Burgoyne, Clinton, and Cornwallis, as well...
I'll reinforce the opinions expressed here about David Fischer's "Washington's Crossing." Probably one of the finest military history books I have...
I'll have to reverse the trend, and say I own many more books on the Revolution than on any other conflict, with the Napoleonic Wars coming in...
I've been to a number of Revolutionary battlefields and sites, including Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga, Saratoga, West Point and the Highlands, NYC...
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