Richard D. Blackmon is a graduate in history of the University of South Florida whose academic career included study at the University of Cambridge. Author of Dark and Bloody Ground: The American Revolution Along the Southern Frontier, his current research projects include American history, architecture and Southern literature. Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century.