A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, by James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender
By James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender
An absolutely revised and up-to-date 3rd version of the main confirmed and cutting edge historic research of the Continental military and its position within the formation of the hot republic.
- Written by way of specialists within the box of early U.S. history
- Includes absolutely up to date assurance of the army, political, social, and cultural background of the Revolution
- Features maps, illustrations, a be aware on innovative warfare historical past and Historiography, and an absolutely made over Bibliographical Essay
- Fully confirmed as an important source for classes starting from A.P. U.S. historical past to graduate seminars at the American Revolution
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Most patriot soldiers saw little wrong with the chaotic character of New England’s republican army. These early citizen‐soldiers reveled in the contrasts between themselves and British regulars. The differences connoted that liberty was more vibrant than trained might. The general lack of discipline, the haphazard election of junior officers, and the public response that further swelled the ranks all seemed to justify assumptions that tyranny was on the run. Many of these early soldiers were freehold farmers, artisans, and tradespeople who had rushed from their homes and families to the scene of action.
10 Keegan, A History of Warfare (New York, 1993), 343. 11 Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (New York, 2000), 470–71; Higginbotham, The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763–1789 (New York, 1971), 33. 12 Shy, “A New Look at the Colonial Militia,” in A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (New York, 1976), 24; John Grenier, The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier (New York, 2005), 1–52.
Also, these enthusiasts had little sense of camp sanitation. Ward’s assignment was enervating, but he managed to keep enough units in some semblance of order to discourage any offensive movements by General Gage. Most patriot soldiers saw little wrong with the chaotic character of New England’s republican army. These early citizen‐soldiers reveled in the contrasts between themselves and British regulars. The differences connoted that liberty was more vibrant than trained might. The general lack of discipline, the haphazard election of junior officers, and the public response that further swelled the ranks all seemed to justify assumptions that tyranny was on the run.