With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)

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The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War actually fought.

This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army all through the “American rebel” at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 used to be overhauled and adapted to the ordinary conditions confronting it in North The united states.

First scrutinizing such operational problems as logistics, manpower shortages, and poor intelligence, Spring then makes a speciality of battlefield tactics to examine how troops marched to the battlefield, deployed, advanced, and fought. In particular, he documents using turning movements, the loosening of formations, and a reliance on bayonet-oriented shock tactics, and he also highlights the army’s ability to tailor its tactical how to local conditions.

Written with flair and a wealth of details a good way to engage scholars and history enthusiasts alike, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only offers a thorough reinterpretation of how the British Army’s North American campaign progressed and invites serious reassessment of most of its battles.

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