The myth of the eighteenth-century British "war machine" persists, perplexing those who search for the reasons why Britain lost the Revolutionary War. In this b

"This book ... is not an account of the war and its strategy, but offers a short examination of the organization of the British Army in America and Britain at t

When war erupted in the American colonies in 1775 at Lexington and Concord, the British Empire was logistically unprepared. Neither the army nor the supporting