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42flanker	17 May 2023 1:38 a.m. PST
'Unhappy Catastrophes: The American Revolution in Central New Jersey, 1776-1782 (Emerging Revolutionary War)' by Robert Dunkerly. Greetings all. This book has just come up on my radar. It seems quite short (192 pages). Is the work more of a gazeteer of sites in New Jersey with brief entries as to what took place where or is there a fuller narrative. I was wondering whether any members have seen or read the book and if they might enlighten me. Many thanks
Brechtel198	21 May 2023 4:37 a.m. PST
One line in the Author's Note is as interesting as it is puzzling: 'With the British invasion in the fall of 1776, New Jersey became the front line and remained the primary theater for the rest of the war.' I find that idea puzzling as the war shifted to the South in 1779 and became the decisive theater of the war. As to what the author means by 'primary theater' I have no idea as I don't have the book, and that line does not lend itself to a factual account of the importance of New Jersey as a 'theater' of war. The northern theater of the war was decisive with the Saratoga campaign and the surrender of Burgoyne's army in 1777. At best New Jersey was a secondary theater of war as major events moved away from it to go elsewhere.

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