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Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution
Author | : Ira D. Gruber |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2010-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807899403 |
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Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders. Now, in this groundbreaking analysis, Ira D. Gruber identifies which among over nine hundred books on war were considered most important by British officers and how those books might have affected the army from one era to another. By examining the preferences of some forty-two officers who served between the War of the Spanish Succession and the French Revolution, Gruber shows that by the middle of the eighteenth century British officers were discriminating in their choices of books on war and, further, that their emerging preference for Continental books affected their understanding of warfare and their conduct of operations in the American Revolution. In their increasing enthusiasm for books on war, Gruber concludes, British officers were laying the foundation for the nineteenth-century professionalization of their nation's officer corps. Gruber's analysis is enhanced with detailed and comprehensive bibliographies and tables.
The British Soldier in America
Author | : Sylvia R. Frey |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780292749283 |
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This social history of the common British soldier in the American Revolution dispels myths and sheds new light on who fought for the Crown—and why. In this extensive study, Sylvia Frey surveys recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs to provide insight into the soldier’s “life and mind.” In the process she reveals a great deal about the common soldier: his social origins and occupational background, his size, age, and general physical condition, his personal economics and daily existence. Her findings dispel the traditional assumption that the army was made up largely of criminals and social misfits. Special attention is given to soldiering as an occupation, and the moral and material factors which induced men to accept the high risks. Focusing on two of the major campaigns of the war—the Northern Campaign which culminated at Saratoga and the Southern Campaign which ended at Yorktown—Frey describes the human face of war, with particular emphasis on the physical and psychic strains of campaigning in the eighteenth century. Frey rejects the traditional assumption that soldiers were motivated to fight exclusively by fear and force and argues instead that the primary motivation to battle was generated by regimental esprit, which in the eighteenth century substituted for patriotism. After analyzing the sources of esprit, she concludes that it was the sustaining force for morale in a long and discouraging war.
The war of the American Revolution
Author | : Robert W. Coakley,Stetson Conn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 016080079X |
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The Organization of the British Army in the American Revolution
Author | : Edward Ely Curtis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:600602991 |
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The British Army in the American Revolution
Author | : Edward Ely Curtis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 1998-02-01 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 0879281227 |
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British Army Officers who Served in the American Revolution 1775 1783
Author | : Steven M. Baule,Stephen Gilbert |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : WISC:89082599416 |
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This compendium is an alphabetical listing of the British Regular Army or â oeRedcoatâ officers who served in North America during the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783. For each officer, the listing includes his name, rank and date of commission. The of
British Light Infantry in the American Revolution
Author | : Robbie MacNiven |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472842503 |
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During the Seven Years' War (1755–63), a number of independent light-infantry outfits served under British command and dedicated light companies were added to the British Army's regular infantry battalions. The light companies were disbanded after the war but the prominent role played by light infantry was not forgotten, and in 1771–72 light-infantry companies were reinstated in every regiment in the British Isles. Although William Howe formed a training camp at Salisbury in 1774 specifically to practise light-infantry doctrine, the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775 found the British Army wanting, and the light companies were no different. After evacuating Boston in March 1776, Howe began to remodel and drill his army at Halifax, standardizing lighter uniform and emphasizing more open-order tactics. He also brigaded his light companies together into composite battalions, which went on to fight in almost every major engagement during the American Revolution. They spearheaded British assaults, using night-time surprise and relying upon the bayonet in engagements such as Paoli and Old Tappan. They also matched their regular and irregular opponents in bush-fighting, and at times fought in far-flung detachments alongside Native American and Loyalist allies on the frontier. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this book offers a comprehensive guide to the formation, uniform, equipment, doctrines and tactics of these elite light infantry companies and battalions, and considers how, over the course of the war they developed a fearsome reputation, and exemplified the psychological characteristics exhibited by crack military units across history.
The Lost War
Author | : Marion Balderston,David Syrett |
Publsiher | : New York : Horizon Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : UOM:39015012083948 |
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