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Don N Hagist

Waging War in America 1775-1783

Operational Challenges of Five Armies during the American Revolution

Don N Hagist

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English
Helion & Company
15 November 2023
American War of Independence
Series: From Reason to Revolution
Studies of the campaigns of the 1775-1783 American War for Independence often suffer for lack of understanding operational aspects of the armies involved. This collection of essays looks at many facets of military operations in America, showing how the armies involved adapted their recruitment, training, tactics and logistics to the specific challenges of this war. British, French, Spanish, German (in the form of regiments from individual states), and the nascent Continental Army. The European forces adapted – much more readily than they are given credit for – to the needs of this particular conflict. The British Army adopted a doctrine of open-order light infantry tactics, and raised large numbers of Loyalist troops in the theatre of war. The British government obtained the assistance of regiments from several German states, established military organizations that relied heavily on specialized skirmishing troops – j?ger – and chasseur companies composed of picked men after the fashion of the British light infantry. The French government sent an expeditionary force from its regular army, while Spain largely employed colonial troops from its North American holdings; each of these armies faced significant logistical challenges while mounting major campaigns. Not least, of course, the American colonies rose to the monumental task of recruiting, training and supplying an army created an army specifically for the conflict.

This collection of essays examines various aspects of the problems faced by each of these forces, and the solutions that they achieved – British training of regulars and raising of Loyalist militia, German adaptation of tactics, French and Spanish logistics and campaigning, and American recruiting and conscription. The authors featured have distinguished themselves by their use of primary sources to re-examine aspects of the period's armies long obscured by assumptions or inaccurate generalizations. Throughout their writings conventional wisdom is challenged, and established assumptions are dispelled by well-documented evidence, showing the real strengths and weaknesses of wide array of professional and part-time military organizations involved in this world-changing war.

15 b/w illustrations, 2 b/w maps, 10 tables
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Imprint:   Helion & Company
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   120
Dimensions:   Height: 245mm,  Width: 170mm, 
ISBN:   9781804513460
ISBN 10:   1804513466
Series:   From Reason to Revolution
Pages:   216
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Don N. Hagist is managing editor of Journal of the American Revolution (http: //allthingsliberty.com), and studies the lives and service of individual British soldiers in the 1770s and 1780s, relying almost exclusively on primary sources. His books include Noble Volunteers: the British Soldiers who Fought the American Revolution (2020) and British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution (2012), and he has published numerous journal articles. He is an engineer for a major medical device manufacturer, and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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