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Book Synopsis THE CONVENTION ARMY, 1777-1783 by : George W. Knepper
Download or read book THE CONVENTION ARMY, 1777-1783 written by George W. Knepper and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of the Convention Army, 1777-1783 by : Alexander James Wall
Download or read book The Story of the Convention Army, 1777-1783 written by Alexander James Wall and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Escape in America by : Richard Sampson
Download or read book Escape in America written by Richard Sampson and published by Picton Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the War of American Independence and after the British defeat at Saratoga, 3,000 British soldiers from the Royal Artillery and 10 British infantry regiments, on orders from their commanding officer, Lieutenant General John Burgoyne, laid down their arms. The story of what happened to these men, often distorted, has been largely ignored by British military historians. Now for the first time, Escape in America disperses some of the mystery which has surrounded their story. In the terms of the Convention of Saratoga, the men were to march to the Atlantic coast, there to wait for British vessels to return them to England. American politicians reneged on the treaty made by their victorious general and on the flimsiest of excuses, the men were held prisoner for the duration of the war. While other prisoners of war were exchanged, from being a privileged group with treaty rights to be repatriated, the Convention Prisoners were held hostage for over five years. The price set for their freedom was the recognition by Britain that the Congress of the United States was a sovereign government. The majority of the men, supported by their junior officers, refused to accept the then official British policy requiring them to remain put until the political disputes surrounding their future could be settled. Large numbers embarked on a series of remarkable escapes from captivity. The story of their adventures has been reconstructed from British, American and Canadian records. The sheer volume of the escapes and the number of successful "home runs" in reaching British lines are noteworthy, and compare favourably with the level of escape efforts made in later wars. George Washington became personally involved in the men's escape when many joined American regiments, but only to use them to reach British lines. Washington quickly recognised they had no love for the American cause and had great difficulty in making his officers understand what the British soldiers were up to. He had to resort to threats against his officers to make them aware their regiments were being used only as a convenient means of transportation through American-held territory. On the British side it seems that contrary to orders, Burgoyne's second in command, Major General William Phillips, Royal Artillery, broke the conditions of his parole by conspiring to effect the escape of the men. Likewise, General Sir Henry Clinton, commanding in New York, did all he could to encourage escape and did much to support the prisoners actions. In this carefully researched book Richard Sampson is fair to both sides. He has concluded that the American army cannot be blamed for the conditions of incarceration under which the men were held. He is critical of the Americans only when the politicians in Congress broke the treaty, at the same time giving orders to their soldiers which were impossible for them to carry out, and which adversely impacted both the prisoners and the surrounding American population.
Book Synopsis After Saratoga by : William M. Dabney
Download or read book After Saratoga written by William M. Dabney and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Captives of Liberty by : T. Cole Jones
Download or read book Captives of Liberty written by T. Cole Jones and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war was daunting. Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war, and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of the Revolution. When the struggle began, according to T. Cole Jones, revolutionary leadership strove to conduct the war according to the prevailing European customs of military conduct, which emphasized restricting violence to the battlefield and treating prisoners humanely. However, this vision of restrained war did not last long. As the British denied customary protections to their American captives, the revolutionary leadership wasted no time in capitalizing on the prisoners' ordeals for propagandistic purposes. Enraged, ordinary Americans began to demand vengeance, and they viewed British soldiers and their German and Native American auxiliaries as appropriate targets. This cycle of violence spiraled out of control, transforming the struggle for colonial independence into a revolutionary war. In illuminating this history, Jones contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound impact on the character and consequences of the American Revolution. Captives of Liberty not only provides the first comprehensive analysis of revolutionary American treatment of enemy prisoners but also reveals the relationship between America's political revolution and the war waged to secure it.
Book Synopsis William Heath to John Burgoyne Regarding the Convention Army, 16 December 1777 by : William Heath
Download or read book William Heath to John Burgoyne Regarding the Convention Army, 16 December 1777 written by William Heath and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Document Relating to the Convention Army, Approximately 17 November 1777 by : Amasa Davis
Download or read book Document Relating to the Convention Army, Approximately 17 November 1777 written by Amasa Davis and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also signed by Col. Joshua Davis, Thomas Crane, Will Harris, and Fitch Pool. Amasa Davis is appointed one of the Commissary's for Supplying the Troops under Genl. Burgoyne (now Prisoners in this State), with the Various sorts of Provisions brought to Boston Market, the produce of the United States, that the said Prisoners shall need, over and above their rations...
Book Synopsis Document Relating to the Convention Army, 5 November 1777 by : Jonathan Titcomb
Download or read book Document Relating to the Convention Army, 5 November 1777 written by Jonathan Titcomb and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appointing Jacob Gerrish Colonel of Regiment raised for a Guard to the Prisoners who surrendered to Major General Gates: and you are to march said Regiment, without Delay to General Heath's Headquarters in Boston.
Book Synopsis Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne and the Convention of Saratoga One Hundred Years Ago. A Paper Read Before the American Antiquarian Society on the 22d of October, 1877 by : Charles Deane
Download or read book Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne and the Convention of Saratoga One Hundred Years Ago. A Paper Read Before the American Antiquarian Society on the 22d of October, 1877 written by Charles Deane and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Military History Volume 1 by : Army Center of Military History
Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Book Synopsis Almost a Miracle by : John E. Ferling
Download or read book Almost a Miracle written by John E. Ferling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war.
Book Synopsis Muster Rolls, Etc., of Officers and Soldiers Guarding Burgoyne's Convention Army, 1777-78 by :
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Book Synopsis Staff Ride Handbook for the Saratoga Campaign, 13 June to 8 November 1777 by : Steven E. Clay
Download or read book Staff Ride Handbook for the Saratoga Campaign, 13 June to 8 November 1777 written by Steven E. Clay and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Staff Ride Handbook for the Saratoga Campaign systematically analyzes this strategically important Revolutionary War campaign. This handbook is one in a number of works from the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) designed to facilitate staff rides for US Armed Forces personnel. Unlike its predecessors, Saratoga is the first handbook that covers a Revolutionary War campaign. Additionally, this book provides users an opportunity to conduct a staff ride that focuses both on the operational and tactical levels of war but is flexible enough that it can be conducted on one or the other level as well.--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis March to Saratoga by : Harrison Bird
Download or read book March to Saratoga written by Harrison Bird and published by New York, Oxford U.P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes General "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne's campaign into the Champlain-Hudson Valley (to split the American colonies) and how their mistakes created the opportunity for the Americans to win.
Book Synopsis The Treatment of Burgoyne's Troops Under the Saratoga Convention by : Charles Ramsdell Lingley
Download or read book The Treatment of Burgoyne's Troops Under the Saratoga Convention written by Charles Ramsdell Lingley and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heath Papers written by William Heath and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: