2005 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. Still the standard work on how Washington's army was formed and maintained; the varieties and sources of food and equipment; relations between officers and the ranks; camp duties and diversions; hospitals and prison ships; army maneuvers; and the attitudes of the ordinary foot soldier as expressed in diaries, letters, journals, and other writings. Reprint of the original 1902 Scribner's publication. Illustrated.

The Private Soldier Under Washington

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Charles Knowles Bolton

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2005 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. A remarkably comprehensive and well informed study originally published in 1926 and written by a Royal Navy captain who focused on the challenge presented to British seapower by the American Revolution with its issues of international maritime warfare, challenges to the Admiralty which had let the Royal Navy fall behind its rivals, neutrality, commerce, and other questions. The author presents a narrative history of British naval operations around the world during this time, the military and civilian leaders, strategies, and overall results. Extensive documentary material includes lists of commissioned ships. Many illustrations and maps.

The British Navy in Adversity: A Study of the War of American Independence

James, Captain W. M.

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The Private Soldier Under Washington

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