The best Biographies of the American Revolution eBooks: Reddit reviews

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The surrenders during the american revolutionary war were really strange when viewed with modern eyes

> Eighteenth-century customs of war usually did the vanquished the honor of allowing him to march out of his lines to lay down his arms with his flags flying and his band playing a march from the victor's national book of martial melodies. But Clinton (british general) dishonored Lincoln (usa revolutionary general) by requiring the Americans to keep their colors cased and forbidding them to play an English or German air.

so - during the surrender at yorktown - the American's got the british back

>American Brigadier General Henry Knox wrote that day to his wife: "They will have the same honors as the garrison of Charleston; that is they will not be permitted to unfurl their colors or play Yankee Doodle."

The shame of the british not being allowed to play yankee doodle was a dastardly slight. it made the british troops so mad that when they surrendered their arms they threw them on the ground so hard that they attempted to break them as to be inoperable from - Vowell, Lafayette in the somewhat united states.

Chiang could not keep the landlords from exploiting the peasants, and he would not fight aggressively against the Japanese. Check out Barbara Tuchman's Stillwell and the American Experience in China. She is a superb historian who was born in China, the daughter of missionaries. Her analysis of Chiang is brilliant, and you can see why the American military got fed up with Chiang. https://www.amazon.com/Stilwell-American-Experience-China-1911-1945-ebook/dp/B00KUQITNE/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3K7VUAY5NXXPD&keywords=stillwell+and+the+american+experience+in+china&qid=1557703019&s=gateway&sprefix=stillwe%2Caps%2C317&...

Heh; is that a reference to the chronic constipation he suffered? BTW, <em>Stilwell and the American Experience in China</em> by Barbara Tuchman is the book to read

If the study of the British soldier interests you I'd also recommend Don Hagist's British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution which examines the first hand stories of a half dozen British soldiers and uses them as case studies to dispel numerous myths about how the British army was run during this time period.