Tango01  | 25 Jun 2012 10:06 p.m. PST |
Interesting book.
The author was one of the few (about 100 men) who survived from his unit (original 600 men) in the American Revolution War.
Not so many details in combat, but quite interesting about the country, indians, to be a prisioner from the Americans, and the end of the British Army.
Free to read here. link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
 Ironwolf | 26 Jun 2012 2:06 a.m. PST |
Again Armand, great find. I've heard about Sgt Lamb's book but not read it. Thanky. |
 Sparker  | 26 Jun 2012 2:29 a.m. PST |
Not to forget the sequel, 'Proceed Sgt Lamb' edited by Robert Graves, a famous poet of WW1 and Officer of that Regiment. |
 Flashman14 | 26 Jun 2012 4:44 a.m. PST |
Mark Urban covered this in his fairly recent book Fusiliers right? Same period and regiment. |
| Grizzly71 | 26 Jun 2012 6:19 a.m. PST |
Flashman, you are correct. I just finished his book. A good read, with several mentions of Sgt. Lamb. I think this might be a good follow up to it. |
| Thomas Mante | 26 Jun 2012 6:35 a.m. PST |
There is another volume of Lamb memoirs published around the same time that duplicates this in part. Both volumes contain a lot of text lifted from a number of C18th 'guides'. An edited/cleaned up version of Lamb's narrative was published some years ago by Don Hagist: link Mark Urban's book uses Lamb's story as a source and so did Robert Graves two novelisation attempts Sgt Lamb of the 9th and Proceed Sergeant Lamb |
| Tango01 | 26 Jun 2012 11:26 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoy the book boys!. Amicalement
Armand |
| historygamer | 26 Jun 2012 5:40 p.m. PST |
Don Hagist had an annotated versiion out that is worth the buy.. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 28 Jun 2012 7:21 a.m. PST |
<<The author was one of the few (about 100 men) who survived from his unit (original 600 men) in the American Revolution War.>> Just over 1,250 enlisted men served in the 23rd Foot from its arrival in New York in June 1773, through to departure from that same port in October 1783. Of these, about 1/3 died – mostly from disease and hardship – and another 1/3 were discharged for various reasons over the course of those ten years. Just under 200 returned to England at the end of the war; most of these were discharged over the next year or so, and replaced by new men. Another 100 or so were allowed to settle in Canada. The 1,250 included about 40 men recruited in Germany by British agents (every unit serving in America got some of these – 30-40 was about the average), and about two dozen escapees from Burgoyne's army after it was interned, including the famous Sgt Lamb. Don Hagist's recent republishing of Lamb's own memoirs, with the "hearsay" bits taken out, is the best edition of this work. |
Virginia Tory  | 05 Jul 2012 5:25 a.m. PST |
>Don Hagist's recent republishing of Lamb's own memoirs, >with the "hearsay" bits taken out, is the best edition of >this work. Agreed--it's very good and well-footnoted. And has some Eric Schnitzer sketches in it, too. |
| Thomas Mante | 05 Jul 2012 5:49 a.m. PST |
Don Hagist's edition can be obtained from here: link |
| Tango01 | 05 Jul 2012 10:24 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the info guys!. Amicalement
Armand |
