With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 Spring Matthew H.Paperback
With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 Spring Matthew H.Paperback The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off…
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With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 Spring Matthew H.Paperback
The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the "American rebellion" at both operational and tactical levels. Now Matthew H.
In particular, he documents the use of turning movements, the loosening of Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 was overhauled and adapted to the peculiar conditions confronting it in North America.First scrutinizing such operational problems as logistics, manpower shortages, and poor intelligence, Spring then focuses on battlefield tactics to examine how troops marched to the battlefield, deployed, advanced, and fought.