As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ...
This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front ...
Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary ... British Royal Navy in capturing Charleston harbor, assuring them that ...
Evidence of the British army remained elusive. "We found quite a few buttons. Other than the ones from the Civil War, none of them were military. We didn't find any Revolutionary War ones ...