Fusiliers (65 page)

Inman, Lieutenant George ‘George Inman’s Narrative of the American Revolution’,
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
, vol. VII, no 3, 1883. Inman fought initially as a volunteer in the 4th Light Company and was later commissioned into the 17th.

Johnson, Joseph
Traditions and Reminiscences chiefly of the American
revolution in the South
, Charleston 1851.

Kemble, Stephen ‘Journal of Stephen Kemble, 1773–1789; and British Army Orders’ in
The Kemble papers
, New-York Historical Society Collections, New York 1884 (reprinted Boston 1972). These journals over an initial period (1775–79) as a senior staff officer followed by Caribbean service in the 60th.

Kirby, Major E. L. (ed.)
Officers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (
23rd
Regiment of
Foot) 16 March 1689 to
4
August 1914
, privately published for the regiment in the 1990s.

Knox, Captain John
Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North America
, Toronto 1914.

Lamb, Roger
An Original and Authentic Journal of Occurences During the Late
American War from its Commencement to the Year 1783
, Dublin 1809.

Lamb, Roger
Memoir of His Own Life
, Dublin 1811.

[Lambart, Major General Richard]
A New System of Military Discipline
,
Founded Upon Principle
, ‘by A General Officer’, London 1773.

Lee, Charles
The Lee Papers
, New-York Historical Society Collections, New York 1872–1875.

Lee, Robert E. (ed.)
The Revolutionary War Memoirs of General Henry Lee
, 1869, facsimile edition New York 1998.

Lister, Ensign Jeremy
Concord Fight
, Cambridge ma 1931.

Lushington, Stephen R.
The Life and Service of General, Lord Harris
, London 1840. Harris was an excellent letter writer from the 5th Foot who served in America 1775–78.

McCrady, Edward
History of South Carolina in the Revolution 1775–1780
, 2vols, New York 1901.

Mackenzie, Frederick
The Diary of Frederick Mackenzie
, 2 vols, Cambridge
MA
1930.

Mackenzie, Frederick
A British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston
, ed. Allen French, Boston 1926.

Mackenzie, Roderick
Strictures of Lieut. Colonel Tarleton’s History
, London 1787.

Mackesy, Piers
War For America 1775–1783
, London 1964.

McGuire,
Thomas J. The Surprise of Germantown
, Germantown
PA
1994.

Martin, J. P.
Private Yankee Doodle
, New York 1962.

Melville, Lewis
Farmer George
, 2 vols, London 1907.

Money, Gen. J.
To the Right Honourable William
Windham
on a Partial
Reorganisation of the British Army
, London 1799.

Montresor, Capt. John
The Journal of Captain John Montresor
, New-York Historical Society Collections, New York 1881.

Morrissey, Brendan
Boston
1775
, The Shot Heard Around the World
, London 1993.

Morrissey, Brendan
Yorktown
1781
, The World Turned Upside Down
, Oxford 1997.

Morrissey, Brendan
Monmouth Courthouse 1778, The Last Great Battle in the
North
, Oxford 2004.

Morton, Robert ‘Diary of Robert Morton’,
Pennsylvania Magazine of History
and Biography
, vol. I, 1877.

Mowday, Bruce E.
September 11th
1777
, Washington’s Defeat at Brandywine
Dooms Philadelphia
, Shippensburg
PA
2002.

Muenchhausen, Friedrich von
At General Howe’s Side, 1776–1778: The Diary
Of General William Howe’s Aide De Camp, Captain Friedrich Von
Muenchhausen
, trs Ernst Kipping, Monmouth Beach
NJ
1974.

Murray, Sir James
Letters From America 1773 to 1780, Being the Letters of a
Scots Officer, Sir James Murray, to his home during the War of American
Independence
, ed. Eric Robson, Manchester 1951. Murray provides good colour; serving initially in the 57th Light Company, he later purchased Nisbet’s Balfour’s majority in the 4th.

Nelson, Paul David
William
Tryon
and the Course of Empire: A Life in British
Imperial Service
, London 1990.

Nelson, Paul David
Sir Charles Grey, First Early Grey Royal Soldier, Family
Patriarch
, London 1996.

Newsome, A. R. ‘A British Orderly Book 1780–1781’,
The North Carolina
Historical Review
, vol. IX, 1932, nos 1, 2 and 3.

New-York Historical Society
Revolutionary Muster Rolls
, 2 vols, New York 1914.

O’Hara, Charles ‘Letters of Charles O’Hara to the Duke of Grafton’, ed. George C. Rogers Jr,
South Carolina Historical Magazine
, vol. 65, no. 3, July 1964. O’Hara was an excellent letter-writer, but sadly only some of his O’Hara’s dispatches have survived.

Pattison, Brigadier ‘A New York Diary of the Revolutionary War’, ed. Carson I. A. Ritchie in
Narratives of the Revolution in New York
, New-York Historical Society, 1975.

Peebles, John ‘John Peebles’ American War 1776–1782’, ed. Ira D. Gruber, Stroud 1998. Serving with the 42nd, much of the time in its grenadier company, Peebles is an excellent source from 1776 to early 1782.

Pausch, George Journal of Captain George Pausch, New York 1971.

Percy, Hugh
Letters of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York
1774–1776
, ed. Charles Knowles Bolton, Boston 1902.

Prechtel, Lieutenant Johann Ernst
A Hessian Officer’s Diary of the American
Revolution
, Bowie
MD
1994.

Rice, Howard Jr and Anne S. K. Browne (trs and ed.)
The American Campaigns
of
Rochambeau’s
Army
1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 2 vols, Princeton 1972.

Robertson, Archibald
Archibald Robertson, His Diaries and Sketches in
America 1762–1780
, ed. Henry Miller Lydenberg, New York 1930. As an engineer, Robertson’s observations are most useful on matters of fortification and topography.

Rottenburg, Colonel
Regulations for the Exercise of Riflemen and Light
Infantry and Instructions for Their Conduct in the Field
, London 1803.

Sackville, Viscount George Germain and Caroline Harriet Stopford-Sackville (eds)
HMC, Reports on the Manuscripts of Mrs Stopford-Sackville of
Drayton
House Northamptonshire
, vol II, London 1910.

Sampson, Richard
Escape in America, The British Convention Prisoners
1777–1783
, Chippenham, 1995.

Sargent, Winthrop
The life and career of Major John Andre: adjutant-general of
the British Army in America
, Boston 1861.

Schama, Simon
Rough Crossings
, London 2006.

Scharf, J. Thomas
The chronicles of Baltimore: being a complete history of
‘Baltimore town’ and Baltimore city from the earliest period to the present
time
, Baltimore 1874.

Schecter, Barnett
The Battle for New York
, New York
NY
2002.

Serle, Ambrose
The American Journal of Ambrose Serle, Secretary to Lord
Howe 1776–1778
, ed. by Edward H. Tatum, San Marino ca 1940. Serle, a civilian secretary working for Lord Howe, gives insights into relations within the higher command.

Shaw, John
Robert John Robert Shaw, an Autobiography of Thirty Years
1777–1807’, ed. Oressa M. Teagarden, Athens
OH
1992. A ranker’s memoir from the 33rd, evidently recorded many years later.

Showman, Richard K. (ed.)
The Papers of Nathaniel Greene
, 7 vols, Chapel Hill
NC
1976–1994.

Shy, Silvia
The British Soldier in America, A Social History of Military Life in
the Revolutionary Period
, Austin
TX
1981.

Smith, Samuel S.
The Battle of Brandywine
, Monmouth Beach
NJ
1976.

Stedman, C.
History of the Origin, Progress and Termination of the American
War, 2 vols, London 1794.

Stevens, Benjamin Franklin (ed.)
General Sir William Howe’s Orderly Book
1775–1776
, London 1890.

Stevenson, Roger
Military Instruction for Officers Detached in the Field
, Philadelphia 1775.

Stirke, Henry ‘A British Officer’s Revolutionary War Journal 1776–1778’, ed. S. Sydney Bradford,
Maryland Historical Magazine
, no. 56, June 1961. Stirke served with the 10th Light Company and provides useful testimony at the time it and the 1st Battalion Light Infantry were busiest.

Sullivan, Thomas
From Redcoat to Rebel: The Thomas Sullivan Journal
, ed. Joseph Lee Boyle, Westminster md, 2004. A rare ranker’s view of the war, Sullivan served in both light and battalion companies of the 49th durng 1775 to 1778, when he deserted.

Tarleton, Banastre
A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and
1781
in the
Southern Provinces of North America
’, London 1781.

Tielke, Captain J. G.
The Field Engineer
, (English edition) London 1784.

Ward, Christopher L.
The Delaware Continentals
1776–1783
, Wilmington
DE
1941.

Ward, Christopher
The War of the Revolution
, 2 vols, New York 1952.

Watkins, John
A Biographical Memoir of his late Royal Highness Frederick
Duke of York and Albany
, London 1827.

Wickwire, Franklin and Mary
Cornwallis and the War of Independence
, London 1970.

Wilkin, Walter Harold
Some British soldiers in America
, London 1914.

Williams, Lieutenant
Discord and Civil Wars, being a Journal Kept by
Lieutenant Williams
, ed. Walter S. Merwin, Buffalo ny 1954.

Williamson, John
The Elements of Military Arrangement; Comprehending the
Tactick
, Exercises, Manoeuvres, and Discipline of the British Infantry
, London 1781.

Wolfe, Major General James
Instructions to Young Officers
, London 1768.

Wortley, the Hon Mrs E. Stuart (ed.)
A Prime Minister and His Son From the
Correspondence of the 3rd Earl of Bute and of Lt General The Hon. Sir
Charles Bute
, London 1925.

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at the St David’s Day dinner
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and Howe
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told to sell his majority
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Bland, Humphrey
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Treatise of Military Discipline
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