Recent Posts Tagged With 'british forces'

• Review of David Hackett Fischer’s Washington’s Crossing

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 01:11 in book review, General, british troops, trenton, revolutionary war, british army, continental troops, american colonial forces, british forces, continental army, hessians, david hackett fischer

  Fischer, David Hackett.  Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. David Hackett Fischer has written a remarkable book on one of the more important events of the American Revolution:  the Battle of Trenton, placing that bat...

• BATTLE OF FALLEN TIMBERS CONFIRMS AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE-PART II

  Posted on Sunday September 28th, 2008 at 23:33 in indian wars, revolutionary war, irregular warfare, british forces, battle of fallen timbers, st. clair's defeat

  Continued from Part I The US Constitution proved a remarkably forward-thinking document for its day, encoding individual liberties.  Many historians state that the delegates used the ancient Roman republic and Greek democracy for their examples.  W...

• Review of Founding Fighters

  Posted on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 19:09 in revolutionary war, continental troops, british forces

  This review will appear in an upcoming issue of On Point. Cate, Alan C. Founding Fighters: The Battlefield Leaders Who Made American Independence. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006. 264pp. ISBN: 0-275-98707-8 $49.95 Founding...

• The Decisive Battles of the Frontier

  Posted on Friday January 18th, 2008 at 02:44 in british troops, indian wars, war of 1812, revolutionary war, continental troops, american colonial forces, british forces

  My apologies for the long break between posts. The last post discussed a good series from the History Channel in its early days before it sold out to ratings. The series Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest examined the lives of four individuals im...

• TV Documentary on the Legends of the Frontier

  Posted on Thursday November 29th, 2007 at 02:45 in rangers, history channel, frontier, british troops, french and indian war, indian wars, war of 1812, revolutionary war, irregular warfare, continental troops, french troops, indian forces

  I must state that I believe that The History Channel has declined in quality over the years. When it started, the programming was of a higher quality. Then, the channel began to over emphasize the World War II period (not that this time is not import...

• Review of The First Way of War by John Grenier

  Posted on Sunday October 21st, 2007 at 22:03 in rangers, military history, militia, british troops, french and indian war, indian wars, war of 1812, revolutionary war, colonial history, irregular warfare, continental troops, french troops

  I wrote the following review for On Point: The Journal of Army History and it will appear in an upcoming issue. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814. By John Grenier. Cambridge University Press, 2005. i-xiv, 232 Pp. F...

• Thoughts on the PBS Documentary “The War That Made America”

  Posted on Monday October 8th, 2007 at 02:34 in rangers, french and indian war, indian wars, irregular warfare, american colonial forces, british forces, french colonial forces

  My apologies for not keeping up with this site, but I hope to keep up with it, as I am reviewing a book dealing with the period, and I hope to get other writers involved. I have been meaning to write something about the documentary “The War Tha...

• A late, great colonial historian worth reading

  Posted on Thursday July 5th, 2007 at 20:33 in rangers, french and indian war, indian wars, irregular warfare, american colonial forces, british forces, early colonial battles, french colonial forces, king george's war, king william's war, queen anne's war

  Every now and then, an author comes around that is worth reading, even after death.  Howard Peckham is that author.  Peckham, who died in 1995 served as both a history professor at the University of Michigan and director of the Clements Library fro...