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    Patriot Battles: How the Revolutionary War was Fought
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    Patriot Battles: How the Revolutionary War was Fought

    By Michael Stephenson

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    Drawing on hundreds of specialist sources, contemporary and archival, Patriot Battles is the comprehensive one-volume study of the military aspects of the War of Independence. The first part of the book offers a richly detailed examination of the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat: For example, who fought and what motivated them, whether patriot or redcoat, Hessian or Frenchman? How were they enlisted and trained? How were they clothed and fed? What weapons did they use, and how effective were they? When soldiers became casualties or fell ill, how did medical services deal with them? What roles did loyalists, women, blacks, and Indians play?

    The second part of the book gives a closer look at the war's greatest battles, with maps provided for each. Which men were involved, and how many? What was the state of their morale and equipment? What parts did terrain and weather play? What were the qualities of the respective commanders, and what tactics did they employ? How many casualties were inflicted? And no less important, how did the soldiers fight?

    Throughout, many cherished myths are challenged, reputations are reassessed, and long-held assumptions are tested. For all readers, Patriot Battles becomes not only one of the most satisfying and illuminating works to be added to the literature on the War of Independence in many years but also a refreshing wind blowing through some of its dustier corridors.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061870002
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    Patriot Battles: How the Revolutionary War was Fought
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    Michael Stephenson

    Michael Stephenson is an expert on energy and climate change and has a unique mixture of experience in modern climate and energy science, policy, “deep time” climate science, and coal and petroleum geology. He has published two books on related subjects and over 80 peer-reviewed papers. His recently published book Shale gas and fracking: the science behind the controversy (Elsevier) won an ‘honourable mention’ at the Association of American Publishers PROSE awards in Washington DC in February 2016. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. In addition, as Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey, Michael Stephenson has represented UK science interests in energy, as well as providing extensive advice to the UK Government.

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    • 4/5
      Well-researched, and I enjoy the way it was presented (ie not chronolgoical but rather broken out in to different aspects of the equipment, and how the men and women worked in the war.

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    • 2/5
      The author's intention of explaining the "how" is somewhat accomplished in the first half of the book. Details on weapons, food, recruitment, tactics and the like are discussed, but the author occasionally dips into a more sarcastic and even snarky tone. The second half is a recounting of a number of Revolutionary War battles but not in deep enough detail to illuminate the "how". It is more of a "pop" history. Only recommended for those who don't wish to delve too deeply into the details.