"The Redcoat in America: The Diaries of Lieutenant..." Topic

… WILLIAM BAMFORD, 1757–1765 AND 1776.

"Writings of participants in the American Revolution are always welcome when they become widely available. John B. Hattendorf's new contribution to this literature is especially interesting because it offers one individual's perspectives on events over two decades and two conflicts. Hattendorf's recognized that two surviving manuscript diaries in different repositories are by the same author, British army officer William Bamford. One diary, describing operations in North America from 1758 through 1765, is in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in Rhode Island; the other, covering campaigns in America from January through December 1776, is held by Johns Hopkins University. The latter diary was published in the Maryland Historical Magazine in the 1930s, and that version is well-known to historians of the American Revolution, but the French and Indian War diary has remained obscure and its connection to the later journal was not previously recognized. Hattendorf's new volume, A Redcoat in America, includes an introduction describing the discovery process, as well as the complete transcribed text of both diaries with extensive annotation…"
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