American Revolutionary War

This is an innovative study of the British perspective of the Revolutionary War.The War for American Independence was essentially a civil war throughout the colonies: Loyalists and patriots who had grown up together as countrymen found themselves fighting on opposing sides. Troy Bickham asserts that the war proved almost as divisive in the motherland, as the British wielded the almighty pen and went to battle on the pages of the press in Britain. Surpassing the breadth of previous studies on the subject, Making Headlines offers a look at the British press as a whole - including analysis of London newspapers, provincial newspapers, and monthly magazines.The free press in Britain, Bickham argues, was too widespread and too lucrative to be susceptible to significant government interference and therefore provided in-depth coverage on all aspects of the war. Private letters, official dispatches, extracts from foreign newspapers, maps, and detailed tables of fleet strengths and locations filled the pages of daily publications that provided more extensive and more rapid information than even the government could. Due to the inexpensive and easily accessible news, the average British citizen was often as well informed as a cabinet minister. The open editorial nature of the press also allowed someone as socially low as a blacksmith's wife, under the cloak of anonymity, to scrutinize and offer commentary on every political decision and military maneuver, all in front of a national audience.Bickham adeptly leads the reader on an exploration into the varied national debates that raged throughout Britain during the American Revolution, one of Britain's historically most unpopular wars. The British public debated how to defeat George Washington, whose perseverance and conduct was much-admired in Britain, whether captured Americans should be held as prisoners of war or hung as traitors, and the morality of including American Indians in the war effort. Making Headlines also reflects the global perspective of the war held by most Britons, who saw the conflict not only as a fight for America but also as a struggle to protect their worldwide empire as America's European allies turned the conflict into a world war, threatening even the British Isles themselves. This study will appeal to those interested in early America, the American Revolution, British history, and media studies.

This definitive encyclopedia, originally published in 1983 and now available as an ebook for the first time, covers the American Revolution, comes in two volumes and contains 865 entries on the war for American independence. Included are essays (ranging from 250 to 25,000 words) on major and minor battles, and biographies of military men, partisan leaders, loyalist figures and war heroes, as well as strong coverage of political and diplomatic themes. The contributors present their summaries within the context of late 20th Century historiography about the American Revolution. Every entry has been written by a subject specialist, and is accompanied by a bibliography to aid further research. Extensively illustrated with maps, the volumes also contain a chronology of events, glossary and substantial index.

: This paper examines the strategic leadership competencies of British General William Howe during the American Revolution (1775-1778). During the American War of Independence, General Howe displayed periodic tactical brilliance and operational competence but consistent strategic ineptitude. After arriving in America, Howe was quickly thrust into the position of Commander-in-Chief of British Forces and General of North America. Howe's lack of self awareness, ineptness in managing the personalities of his subordinate commanders, personal biases, and lack of political savvy resulted in the strategic failure of the British war effort. Howe's difficulty in transitioning from tactical, through operational to the strategic level provides a useful example as to the dramatically different challenges faced by current leaders as they prepare for and address similar challenges in our contemporary operational and strategic environment.

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Prince Hall was enslaved in Massachusetts and trained as an artisanal leatherworker. He was apparently granted a great deal of physical and mental freedom by his enslaver, as he managed to join a Congregational Church and start his own Freemasons Lodge. When the fighting started in the American War of Independence, Hall became a prominent voice in the cause of freeing all those enslaved in the colony. Hall was also an early advocate of the “back to Africa” movement, wanting to return to a continent he had probably never been to. As such, he wanted to fight for the cause of American independence, expecting it to lead to African American independence too. The colonists’ war to secure what they saw as their natural rights raised the obvious question of the natural rights of enslaved people in the British colonies too, and Hall was inspired by the rhetoric found in the Declaration of Independence to ask the Massachusetts Legislature to grant the freedom of all those enslaved in the colony.

(1988). Mahan, Sea Power, and the War for American Independence. The International History Review: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 59-67.

This chapter details the development of military medicine during the American Revolutionary War. It describes the austere beginnings of the Army Hospital Department and the organizational framework of military medical facilities, including regimental physicians and medical care in general military hospitals. The chapter outlines key medical advancements from the war, including the development of a new battlefield triage system, preventive health measures for military installations, and a force-wide system for smallpox variolation. With respect to smallpox variolation, the chapter describes the process of inoculation and provides firsthand accounts of the ethical, clinical, and operational challenges of instituting a force-wide smallpox variolation program. This includes ethical debate surrounding forced inoculation and whether the practice violates the medical autonomy of soldiers or constitutes an affront to God’s will.

Poland and the American Revolutionary War. By Miecislaus Haiman. (Chicago: The Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, 1932. xvi + 208 pp. Appendices.) A. C. Flick A. C. Flick The University of the State of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 19, Issue 4, March 1933, Page 583, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897815 Published: 01 March 1933

Desertion from active military service has always been a contentious action, especially in times of war. Deserters in the eighteenth century were routinely castigated as poor patriots or traitorous subjects. Recently, scholars have begun to analyse in greater depth how and why desertions occurred, and have demonstrated that political considerations were less important than issues of identity and interest. However, in the context of the American Revolutionary War, historians have focused on the relationship between deserters and the military, arguing that soldiers who left their posts were less integrated into the camp community. This article suggests that the act of desertion was often more than a protest against conditions or discipline, but instead was shaped by a deserter's connections with civil society rather than the military community.

This thesis explores the question Ian Baucom poses—“whether the now will or will not accept the property it has inherited in its what-has-beens” (Specters 330)—as a way to read Lawrence Hill’s novel The Book of Negroes (2007) now. It seeks to investigate how Hill’s novel reconfigures a black history and recalibrates history’s conception of black people to enable us to remember specters of the Atlantic. It attempts to examine how fragments of subaltern histories may challenge the authority of a white history and how we may read forms of subaltern historical agency in each of the specific historical moments represented in Hill’s novel. By representing the protagonist Aminata Diallo involvement in a series of historic events—including but not limited to the Atlantic slave trade, the American Revolutionary War, black Loyalist history, and the British abolition of the slave trade—Hill’s novel places specific demands on its readers. In addressing this topic, this thesis project consequently argues that Aminata’s story would, through the act of reading, continually be evoked and renewed beyond her moment of enunciation. There are three chapters in this thesis. Chapter One underlines the inadequacy of official representations of the British bicentenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade held in 2007. It accentuates Ian Baucom’s contention that “[t]he question . . . is not whether the present is or is not host to its various ‘pasts,’ but whether the now will or will not accept the property it has inherited in its what-has-beens” (Specters 330) as the problematic and the task of this thesis project as a whole. This chapter accordingly asks: how could Baucom’s concept of “the long twentieth century” enable us to recognize our inherited historical responsibility? And in what ways could we read a black history with a renewed sense of scrutiny? Chapter Two turns to Hill’s novel The Book of Negroes to investigate its reformulation of a black history as a way of remembering the specters of the Atlantic. It explores how Hill’s novel continues in various ways to problematize forms of power enacted in an authorized history and how a black history may nevertheless be read otherwise. This chapter contends that the novel’s representation of Aminata Diallo’s particularity does not simply testify against the violence wrought by the British in black Loyalist history, but, through her experience, brings into question her story at large. Chapter Three concludes this thesis by underlining its central concern with a critical project of remembering. It seeks to rethink the issue of creolization as viewed through Rinaldo Walcott’s creolized pedagogy engaged with the lived trauma of slavery and, consequently, attempts to answer the question: what would constitute an adequate way to read Hill’s novel in the present? In doing so, this thesis hopes to generate further questions about the meanings of the past, opening up new avenues to learn to engage with a past that refuses to be settled.

In contrast to the British constitutional model, whose political and legal system progressively evolved in response to the twists and turns of history, in the last third of the eighteenth century there appeared in western constitutional history a new model based on a revolutionary break with the past. This occurred first in the United States of America, a new country spawned by a colonial rebellion against the English Crown. The colonists’ revolt became a full-fledged revolution when the 13 colonies agreed to become 13 independent states, whose representatives, gathered in Congress, approved constitutional prescripts to govern the relationships between them: the Articles of Confederation. This process was facilitated by the fact that from the outset the English colonists had enjoyed considerable autonomy from London; the English monarchy (in stark contrast to the Spanish) had always employed a colonial model essentially based on private initiative. The fact that the colonists governed themselves almost from the very beginning explains how after their break with the Crown they were able to establish the first viable republican regimes in contemporary western history with relative ease. The American states and the federal constitutions they would endorse were based on a rejection of the monarchical principle still prevailing in Europe, the establishment of assembly-based government based on popular sovereignty, and limits set down in written constitutions. The American Revolution’s importance as a landmark event in Western constitutional history was magnified when many of its principles triumphed across the Atlantic during its European corollary: the French Revolution.

Beginning with George Washington’s decision to immunize his army against smallpox during the War of the American Revolution, vaccines have traditionally been used as a primary strategy for the prevention of infectious diseases in military settings (Artenstein et al. 2005). This chapter will highlight two vaccine histories involving diseases of military importance. The history of epidemic typhus, caused by rickettsial organisms, is a story that weaves vaccine approaches together with other strategies that eventually controlled the disease and supplanted the need for a vaccine; another rickettsial disease, scrub typhus, continues to be of military concern, and protective vaccines remain elusive. In contrast, the history of adenovirus vaccines presents a dramatic success story but also a cautionary tale regarding the fragility of disease control in selected circumstances.

For the political historian the period in North American history between the end of the Seven Years War, or ‘French and Indian War’, and the outbreak of the wars of the French Revolution is divided into two parts by the successful establishment of a new nation—the United States of America. The constitutional historian may concern himself rather less with this break in continuity. The constitutional problem before the American Revolution was that of providing an acceptable framework of common institutions within which the individual colonies could continue to exercise their characteristic inheritance of internal self-government; after it, it became a question of whether the several states into which the colonies had been transmuted could supply themselves with such organs for common action as their new situation in the world seemed to require. The new national government had to find solutions that had eluded the advisers of George III. From this admittedly limited point of view, the story has an underlying unity which it is the object of this chapter to present. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the thirteen British colonies that were to form the nucleus of the new United States all enjoyed some form of representative institutions, as did indeed eight other island colonies in the western Atlantic and Caribbean sea. Despite the important differences in situation and in the economic and social make-up of the colonies, their institutions had a family likeness. They were indeed the product of two features that distinguished British colonisation in North America from the comparable activity of rival European powers.

A Computer Aided Design (CAD) system has been used to generate dimensionally accurate perspective views of the Bonhomme Richard, a US Naval vessel lost during the Revolutionary War. Collaboration between naval historian/artist William Gilkerson and the CAD Group at Sippican led to the novel application of the computer technology.The computer models were based on Jean Boudriot's pieced-together plan views of the vessel. Bonhomme Richard was John Paul Jones' flagship during the American Revolutionary War. Sunk after sustaining heavy damage during an epic battle with HMS Serapis, Bonhomme Richard lies beneath the turbulent water of the English Channel.

In this book, Jack P. Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--that reflects a process occurring throughout the colonies in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. To determine what it was the Americans were defending in their debate with Britain between 1763 and 1776, Professor Greene defines the specific powers acquired by the lower houses, measures the extent of their authority at the close of the Seven Years' War, and examines the British challenge. He explores the theoretical foundations as well as the practical results of the assemblies' moves, and offers an important new interpretation of the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.