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Why the British Lost the American Revolution
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Notes
1 Dan L . Morrill , Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution ( Baltimore : The Nautical & Aviation Publishing , 1993 ), 15 .
2 Source : https :// americanhistory . si . edu / collections / search / object / nmah _ 324858 .
3 Robert Middlekauff , The Glorious Cause : The American Revolution : 1763-1789 ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 ), 595 .
4 Stephen Brumwell , Redcoats : The British Soldier and War in the Americas , 1755-1763 ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2002 ), 6 .
5 Middlekauff , The Glorious Cause , 597 .
6 Rick Atkinson , The British Are Coming : The War for America , Lexington to Princeton , 1775-1777 ( New York : Henry Holt & Company , 2019 ), Kindle , loc . 7112 .
7 Ibid ., loc . 2869 . 8 Ibid ., loc . 2849 . 9 As quoted in Atkinson , The British Are Coming , loc . 2849 .
10 William B . Willcox , ed ., The American Rebellion : Sir Henry Clinton ’ s Narrative of His Campaigns , 1775-1782 , with an Appendix of Original Documents ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1954 ). There are many examples , specifically the 1780 Chesapeake and Carolinas Campaign ; see pg . 220 .
11 Michael Pearson , Those Damned Rebels : The American Revolution as Seen Through British Eyes ( Boston : Da Capo Press , 1972 ), 10 .
12 Andrew Jackson O ’ Shaughnessy , The Men Who Lost America : British Leadership , the American Revolution , and the Fate of the Empire ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2013 ), 355 .
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