"Hybrid Warfare Dilemmas in the Middle Colonies..." Topic

…during the American Revolution

Of possible interest?

PDF link

Amicalement
Armand

Yes, that is exactly right, and applies as strongly to the Carolinas in 1780-81.

Interesting master's thesis. Will give me something else to read during these "stay at home" days.

Thanks, Armand.

Jim

I agree doc.

I notice it puts all the blame on London for providing Howe with inadequate resources. But Howe was the man on the spot, wildly overestimating local support for Britain, and maintaining abominable discipline. Forget the looting. When you let your troops rape little girls without consequences, just how much local support should you expect?

Trenton is what you deserve when you don't insist that people maintain patrols even in miserable weather and check to see that they do. (See Montrose, who never got the hang of it.) And as for the Assunpink/Princeton fiasco--I have no idea how a regular army with fairly recent wartime experience could possibly have screwed up that badly. The better the map, the more impossible the whole thing looks.

London may had under-resourced their forces in North America, but that didn't do half the damage done by their choices of senior officers.

A votre service mon ami!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

"Trenton is what you deserve when you don't insist that people maintain patrols even in miserable weather and check to see that they do"

While true enough I don't think you can blame Howe for that…Rall yes, and of course he paid a price for his lax attention to detail. Howe was in New York on December 25th 1776 not Trenton.