The American Revolution, Southern Campaign Reads

Good morning, Stroock's Books people, such as you are. 

Ooooo...temps hitting 77 degrees today. A heatwave, we tell you. A heatwave. 

War of the ants...we spotted one ant in the kitchen last night. 

Our dishwasher, which is usually a beeping, malfunctioning mess, has been running smooth lately. Infernal machine. 

Classic post: Rome! Oh look, it's 2015 and we're still a prof. Wow. 

We can't recall the last time we read a book on the American revolution. We earned our MA in 2005 and promptly moved on. By the end of that year we were doing a lot of Roman History stuff for Strategy & Tactics Magazine. Heh, those bastards are still sitting on a piece we sent them in 2006. Our guess is they've just forgotten about the article, but whatever. By 2007 we were writing a lot about ops in Iraq and the GWOT while Oldest Daughter napped.* 

Anyway, here are some of the required books for our class on the American Revolution in the south. 

John Buchanan's The Road to Guilford Courthouse is an exhaustive study of the Southern Campaign and the personalities that fought it. This is easily our favorite book on the subject. A long read, but very worthwhile.  See also David Lee Russell's The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies. Walter Babits dissects the Battle of Cowpens in A Devil of a Whipping. Burke Davis shows us how Nathanael Greene and some Continental partisan commanders defeated the British in The Cowpens/Guilford Courthouse Campaign. 

We'll reco some books on the partisan warfare aspect of the campaign tomorrow.

DOGE Report.

So Pan-American forces out of the Choluteca Gap have crossed the Nicaraguan border and are advancing east and south to clear the Chinandega Province. A pair of Sandinista armor companies are counterattacking.  

We haven't thought about Ireland or the Irish in three weeks, and we're totally okay with that. 

*Pointless nostalgia...20 years ago we are in the midst of our best year of substitute teaching at Bernards High and working on a magazine article for S&T about the Roman general Mettellus. We'd already done a piece on Marius and another on Crassus. We were carrying a hard bound copy of Plutarch's Lives around school. S&T was inspired to publish a bunch of Roman history articles by HBO's Rome.