The Platypus

I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family
Partly birdly, partly mammaly.
I like its independent attitude.
Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.

Ogden Nash

With Zeal and with Bayonets Only:

With 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.

a fight breaks out

I know what happens in it.  I even have a point of view character whose job in the fight will ensure he gets a good view of what happens.

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