This Week on Dispatches: Don N. Hagist on the British Soldiers who Marched to Concord
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR managing editor Don N. Hagist on the demographics of the British soldiers who marched to…
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR managing editor Don N. Hagist on the demographics of the British soldiers who marched to…
Introduction This article supplements one relating to royal militia commanders in the South Carolina Backcountry that appeared in the Journal of the American Revolution…
Introduction After the British capture of Charlestown in mid May 1780 the Crown hoped to raise substantial numbers of militia not only to maintain…
Although it may not have been fatal, scabies brought more patients to British Army hospitals during the Seven Years’ War than any other condition,…
Charles Lee served as second-in-command of the Continental Army, subordinate only to George Washington. Born in England, Lee was the best-educated and most widely-read…
On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR associate editor, Jim Piecuch who elaborates on his article about the suggestion for a British “Female Corp”…
John Sutherland had intended only to visit his brother, and now he sat in confinement, awaiting a death sentence. It was not a likely…
On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and author John G. McCurdy, professor of history at Eastern Michigan University, about the quartering act,…
Aside from Gen. Anthony Wayne’s successful assault upon a British garrison at Stony Point in July, military activity in the first eight months of…
The thought of allowing women to serve in combat was considered ridiculous only a few decades ago in most western nations; it was an…
On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews Pulitzer-prize winning author Rick Atkinson about his latest book, the best-selling The British are Coming: The War…
Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution by John Gilbert McCurdy (Cornell University Press, 2019) Question: “Why did…
Dispatches can now be easily accessed on the JAR main menu. Host Brady Crytzer discusses historian Todd Braisted’s remarkable discovery of a slave who…
In this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews British historian Matthew Moss and the story of Major Patrick Ferguson and the first breech-loading rifle adopted…
The British Occupation of the New York City region during the Revolutionary War was the longest continuous occupation of any area of the entire…
Maj. Patrick Ferguson’s rifle is one of the most interesting and significant early attempts at a breech-loading service rifle. Coupling a screw breech plug…
In today’s trial, see if you agree with the court’s verdict and sentence. In determining guilt, the court considered several factors: was the man…
Desertion was a capital crime, but it was up to a general court martial, a board of thirteen officers, to determine the defendant’s guilt…
If a British soldier was absent without leave, he might be charged with desertion; if caught, he could be tried by a general court…
In this second trial, see if you agree with the court’s verdict and sentence. In determining guilt, the officers of the general court martial…
This week JAR Editor Don N. Hagist presents the testimony from five British desertion trials held during the American Revolution. For each trial, see…
After a few years of editing articles for this journal, it’s become apparent that the ranks of British officers sometimes confuse people. By “sometimes”…
Wars were fought by soldiers, but it is the campaigns and commanders that are remembered and studied. This is a shame because the soldiers…
The army that attempted to subdue rebellion in America in the 1770s and 1780s consisted primarily of soldiers from the British regular army. Although…
As a young woman in Somerset in 1773 you married that handsome weaver from a neighboring parish, but now it’s two years later and…
Myth: British soldiers were taught not to aim, but merely to point the piece towards the target[1] …the British soldier was a poor marksman….
The article “Unleashing the Dogs of War” gave just a few examples of the canine presence that was quite widespread in the armies of…
I read with interest Thomas Fleming’s article, “The Fate of Regulars.” Readers may be interested to know that British soldiers had much better prospects…