With Zeal and with Bayonets Only:
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marycatelliWith Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 by Matthew H. Spring
An analysis of the American Revolution from a British point of view. Their purpose was to defeat the rebel forces and thus convince the majority of Americans that the minority who had led them into rebellion were unable to win.
Obviously, they didn't. Their constraints on manpower, lack of supplies of any kind from tents to forages for horses, or horses themselves, the terrain and having to reimplement fighting as they did, the troops' motivations, how the officers worked, the deployments and how they had to change; guns and bayonets, among other topics. Gets technical.
An analysis of the American Revolution from a British point of view. Their purpose was to defeat the rebel forces and thus convince the majority of Americans that the minority who had led them into rebellion were unable to win.
Obviously, they didn't. Their constraints on manpower, lack of supplies of any kind from tents to forages for horses, or horses themselves, the terrain and having to reimplement fighting as they did, the troops' motivations, how the officers worked, the deployments and how they had to change; guns and bayonets, among other topics. Gets technical.