THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: MILITARY HISTORY

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Mitchell, Joseph B. (LtCol). Decisive Battles of the American Revolution. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. 217 p.
Book call no.: 973.3 M681d

Mitchell, Joseph B. (LtCol). Discipline and Bayonets: The Armies and Leaders in the War of the American Revolution. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. 223 p.
Book call no.: 355.48 M681d

Morrill, Dan L. Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. Baltimore, MD, Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co, 1993. 227 p.
Book call no.: 973.33 M874s

Oswald, Richard. Memorandum on the Folly of Invading Virginia, the Strategic Importance of Portsmouth, and the Need for Civilian Control of the Military. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press for the Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1953. 61 p.
Written in 1781 by the British negotiator of the first American treaty of peace.
Book call no.: 973.33 O86m

Palmer, Dave Richard. The Way of the Fox: American Strategy in the War for America, 1775-1783. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1975. 229 p.
Book call no.: 973.33 P173w

Palmer, Dave Richard and Stryker, James W. Early American Wars and Military Institutions. Wayne, NJ, Avery Publishing Group, 1986. 84 p.
Book call no.: 973 P173e (OTS Area)

Pancake, John S. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782. University, AL, University of Alabama Press, 1985. 293 p.
Book call no.: 973.33 P188t

Pearson, Michael. Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution as Seen Through British Eyes. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. 446 p.
Book call no.: 973.3 P362t

Peckham, Howard Henry. The War for Independence, a Military History. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958. 226 p.
Book call no.: 973.34 P368w

Posey, John T. General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution. East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Press, 1992. 325 p.
Book call no.: 92 P855p

Pratt, Fletcher. Eleven Generals: Studies in American Command. New York, William sloane Associates, 1949. 355 p.
Nathanael Greene: The Quaker Turenne, pp 1-36. Anthony Wayne: The Last of the Romans, pp 37-58.
Book call no.: 923.573 P914e (OTS Area)

Rankin, Hugh. Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. New York, Crowell, 1973. 346 p.
Book call no.: 92 M3411r (OTS Area)

The Revolutionary War: A Concise Military History of America's War for Independence, edited by Maurice Matloff. New York, McKay, 1980. 117 p.
Adapted from American Military History, Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army.
Book call no.: 973.3 R454

Roberts, Kenneth L. The Battle of Cowpens: The Great Morale-Builder. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1958. 111 p.
Book call no.: 973.33 R645b

Robson, Eric. The American Revolution in Its Political and Military Aspects, 1763-1783. New York, W. W. Norton, 1966. 244 p.
Book call no.: 973.3 R667ab

Seymour, William. The Price of Folly: British Blunders in the War of American Independence. Washington, Brassey's, 1995. 271 p.
Book call no.: 973.33 S521p

Sklarsky, I. W. The Revolution's Boldest Venture: The Story of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne's Assault on Stony Point. Port Washington, NY, Kennikat Press, 1965. 122 p.
Book call no.: 973.33 S628r

Smith, Page. A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1976. 2 vols.
Provides separate chapters for each engagement (minor and major) as well as chapters on border warfare, guerrilla warfare on the water, naval 'militia' and privateers, etc.
Book call no.: 973.3 S656n

The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six": The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants, edited by Henry S. Commager and Richard B. Morris. New York, Harper& Row, 1975. 1348 p.
Offers the comments of numerous participants grouped under such headings as: Colonel Leslie's Expedition to Salem, Ticonderoga-Bunker's Hill (both the American and British views), Sullivan Leaves the Back Door Open, etc.
Book call no.: 973.3 C734s 1975

Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of the American Revolution. New York, W. Morrow, 1991. 304 p.
Book call no.: 973.3 S874s

Symonds, Craig L. A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution. Annapolis, MD, Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co. of America, 1986. 110 p.
Book call no.: 911.73 S988b

Thayer, Theodore G. Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution. New York, Twayne Publishers, 1960. 500 p.
Book call no.: 92 G811t

Treacy, M. F., Prelude to Yorktown: The Southern Campaign of Nathanael Greene, 1780-1781. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1963. 261 p.
Book call no.: 973.336 T784p

Trevelyan, George (Sir). The American Revolution. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. 4 vols.
Includes extensive information on every aspect of the revolution from Washington's opinion of the British march on Charleston, to the tactical situations at various points, to the effects of specific battles.
Book call no.: 973.3 T812a

United States. Army. Center of Military History. The War of the American Revolution, by Robert W. Coakley and Stetson Conn. Washington, GPO, 1975. 257 p.
Book call no.: 973.3 A741w

United States Army War College. Historical Section. The Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown, 1781, by H. L. Landers (Col, USA. Washington, GPO, 1931. 219 p.
Book call no.: 973.3375 U58v

Vestal, Samuel C. Washington, the Military Man. Washington, George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1931. 55 p. (Honor to George Washington, pamphlet no. 10)
Book call no.: 92 W27ho no.10 (OTS Area)

Wallace, Willard M. Appeal to Arms: A Military History of the American Revolution. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1951. 308 p.
Book call no.: 973.33 W195a

Walsh, John E. Night on Fire: The First Complete Account of John Paul Jones's Greatest Battle. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1978. 185 p.
Book call no.: 973.35 W225n

Ward, Christopher. The War of the Revolution. New York, Macmillan, 1952. 2 vols.
Book call no.: 973.33 W257w

Weigley, Russell F. The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy. New York, Macmillan, 1973. 584 p.
A Strategy of Attrition: George Washington, pp 3-17. A Strategy of Partisan War: Nathanael Greene, pp 18-39.
Book call no.: 355.0973 W418a (also on ACSC Reserve)

Whiteley, Emily S. Washington and His Aides-de-Camp. New York, Macmillan, 1936. 217 p.
Book call no.: 92 W27wh

Willcox, William B. Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence. New York, Knopf, 1964. 534 p.
Book call no.: 92 C641w

Wood, W. J. Battles of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1781. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990. 315 p.
Book call no.: 973.33 W881b

World Almanac of the American Revolution. New York, World Almanac, 1992. 386 p.
Book call no.: R 973.3 W9271

Wright, Esmond. Washington and the American Revolution. New York, Macmillan, 1957. 192 p.
Book call no.: 973.3 W948w

Wrong, George M. Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1921. 295 p.
Book call no.: 973 C557 v.12


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