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Author : Robert W. Coakley,Stetson Conn,Center of Military History
Publisher : Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780394438
Author : Ian V. Hogg,John H. Batchelor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Armies
ISBN : WISC:89082615329
This book describes the lives of the men at war; the history and lives of the men at war; the history and construction of their rifles, muskets, cannon, small arms and swords and how they were used in the Revolutionary War.
Author : Robert W. Coakley,Stetson Conn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : United States
ISBN : 016080079X
Author : Gabriele Esposito
Publisher : Winged Hussar Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1950423603
An illustrated history of the Continental Army in color This is an illustrated history of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The full-color edition examines the organization, uniforms and equipment of the American forces that fought the British from 1775 - 1783. The volume is Part 1 of a multi part series on the American Revolution illustrated with prints, photos and specially created images for this book.
Author : Robbie MacNiven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472845467
The American Revolution presented a series of unique tactical challenges to its competing factions. For Britain, the Army would be forced to re-learn many of the lessons from the Seven Years' War. After the debacle of Concord and Bunker Hill, the British implemented a range of changes throughout the Army, including the modification of accepted tactical doctrine. Additionally, the British formed alliances with various independent German states. The soldiers they provided thus answered to different armies. How much their tactics adapted during the war, therefore varied from state to state. The Continental Army was founded in 1775 and was initially heavily styled on its British opponents. That began to change in 1778 thanks to the efforts of Prussian officer Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Following their formal alliance with the colonies in 1778, France deployed military assets to North America. French officers also provided tactical advice to the Continental Army, and vice versa, particularly when they worked together successfully during the siege of Yorktown in 1781. Featuring specially commissioned artwork, this absorbing study investigates the various participants' battlefield tactics, casting light on how tactical theory and battlefield experience shaped the conduct of battle in the American Revolution.
Author : Gabriele Esposito
Publisher : Winged Hussar Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1950423883
A pictoral history of the British armies and thier allies that fought in the American Revolution A pictoral history showing the uniforms, arms and organization of the British forces that fought in the American Revolution including regular British forces, American allies, native warriors and mercenary units.
Author : Paul R. Wonning
Publisher : Mossy Feet Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Armies of the Revolutionary War reveals to readers the complexity of the organization of the military forces of the rebelling American colonies as well as the British Army and Navy. The book also discloses the intricate intelligence gathering network both armies devised to spy on each other to gain an advantage in the titanic struggle for America's independence.
Author : Donald M. Londahl-Smidt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472840165
During the American Revolution (1775–83), German auxiliary troops provided a vital element of the British war effort. Some 30,000 German troops served in North America, continuing a long-established relationship between Britain and various German principalities. These troops were widely referred to as mercenaries, implying that they sold their services individually, but they were in fact regular troops hired as a body by the British. Initially feared by the American population, the German troops came to be highly respected by their opponents. Their role in the fighting would inform the tactics and methods of a generation of German officers who returned to Europe after the war, many of whom went on to hold senior commands during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. The largest body of German troops was from Hessen-Cassel. The only German contingent to be employed as a unit under its own general officers, they were clothed and equipped in the style of Frederick the Great's Prussians and were trained in much the same way. Many had seen active service during the Seven Years' War (1756–63) and served under career officers; they were well-disciplined and competent but showed little overt enthusiasm for the British cause. The troops of Hessen-Cassel would participate in every major campaign of the conflict, with the specialized skills of the famous Jäger being particularly in demand. Fully illustrated, this lively study examines the organization, appearance, weapons, and equipment of the Hessen-Cassel troops who fought for King George in the American Revolution.
Author : Robert K. Wright
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210006490294
A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.
Author : Caroline Cox
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469627540
Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, Caroline Cox reconstructs the lives and stories of this young subset of early American soldiers, focusing on how these boys came to join the army and what they actually did in service. Giving us a rich and unique glimpse into colonial childhood, Cox traces the evolution of youth in American culture in the late eighteenth century, as the accepted age for children to participate meaningfully in society--not only in the military--was rising dramatically. Drawing creatively on sources, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, Caroline Cox offers a vivid account of what life was like for these boys both on and off the battlefield, telling the story of a generation of soldiers caught between old and new notions of boyhood.
Author : Edward Ely Curtis
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002150384
Author : John Gilbert McCurdy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501736612
When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution. Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one's house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans' right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imagine a new nation. Quarters emphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses, demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian provinces. Above all, Quarters argues that the lessons of accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War, profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation with a civilian-led military.
Author : S.P. Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135091194
This presents a major re-evaluation of the standard view of revolutionary armies, the range of attitudes towards the role of heroic individuals, the formation and leadership of armies, and the differences and similarities between such armies. Beginning with an exploration of the New Model Army of the 1640s, a force whose name itself seems to denote its revolutionary credentials, the author presents ten case studies from around the globe, including the American War of Independence, The French Revolution, The Zulu-Boer War, the Waffen SS and the Viet-Cong. Through a detailed analysis of source material, he examines the images connected with these armies, both historical and recent, and assesses these images in their socio-political and nationalist contexts.
Author : Ronald Hoffman,Peter J. Albert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B4446095
Author : U. S. Military,U. S. Army,Center of Military History,U. S. Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521310157
This significant historical work produced by the U.S. Army Center of Military History about the overall history of the American Revolution. Excerpted from the Army Historical Series - American Military History, Volume 1, Second Edition, it provides a great overview of the Revolutionary War from the beginnings to the surrender of Cornwallis and Yorktown. The United States as a nation was in its origins a product of English expansion in the New World in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a part of the general outward thrust of West European peoples in this epoch. British people and institutions, transplanted to a new continent and mixed with people of different origins, underwent changes that eventually produced a distinctive American culture. In no area was the interaction of the two influences-European heredity and American environment-more apparent than in the shaping of the military institutions of the new nation. The American Revolution came about fundamentally because by 1763 the English-speaking communities on the far side of the Atlantic had matured to the extent that their interests and goals were distinct from those of the ruling classes in the mother country. British statesmen failed to understand or adjust to the situation. Ironically enough, British victory in the Seven Years' War set the stage for the revolt, for it freed the colonists from the need for British protection against a French threat on their frontiers and gave free play to the forces working for separation. In 1763 the British government, reasonably from its own point of view, moved to tighten the system of imperial control and to force the colonists to contribute to imperial defense. As part of an effort to make the costs of empire be borne by all British subjects, his majesty's government sought to create an "American Establishment," a force of 10,000 British regular soldiers in North America. The cost of this military force would be paid for by taxes the British Parliament levied on Americans. This imperial defense plan touched off the long controversy about Parliament's right to tax that started with the Stamp and Sugar Acts and led to a final provocative deed in December 1773 at the "Boston Tea Party." This party resulted in the destruction of a cargo of East India Company tea by a patriot mob in a protest against "taxation without representation." Contents: The Beginnings * The European Heritage * The Military Revolution * Eighteenth Century European Warfare * The Colonial Scene * Colonial Militia * The Colonies in the World Conflict, 1689-1783 * The American Rifle * The Colonial Heritage * The American Revolution, First Phase * The Outbreak * Formation of the Continental Army * The Invasion of Canada and the Fall of Boston * The New Nation * Evolution of the Continental Army * The British Problem * Of Strategy * The British Offensive in 1776 * Trenton and Princeton * The Winning of Independence, 1777 - 1783 * The Campaign of 1777 * Valley Forge * First Fruits of the French Alliance * The New Conditions of the War * British Successes in the South * Nadir of the American Cause * Greene's Southern Campaign * Yorktown: The Final Act * Surrender of Cornwallis * The Summing Up: Reasons, Lessons, and Meaning