Will's Good Idea for 11-27-16

General George Washington and his Fighting Continentals

The author has a masters in American Revolutionary Studies, and he's always found it Ironic that he has published very little on the matter. There is this piece, on British parliamentary opposition to King, originally published in History Magazine.

Anywho this book will argue that Washington was not fighting a 'war of posts' as some have written. Nor was he pursuing a 'Fabian Strategy' as have written others.

No, Washington wanted to fight and constantly sought out battle. In 1776  he fought several major engagements, Brooklyn Heights, Manhattan, Trenton, Princeton. In 1777 he followed these up with Brandywine and Germantown and finally, in 1778 Monmouth.

Washington lost more battles than he won. His key to victory was strategy. He kept an army in the field, in being and gradually wore down the British until help arrived.

There are some real characters in the Continental Army.  Nathanial Greene, 'the Fighting Quaker'. Lord Stirling the swashbuckling division commander. Henry Knox, the bookseller who had read on tactics and was therefore put in charge of the artillery.

Major chapters will include discussions about the militia (very underrated), the guerrilla war in the south (Mel Gibson was right in a lot of ways) and the British war effort.

This thing is a go.