And of course are on the revolutionary generation. Todays lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war, mostly in the north and south. Next week, when we have our guest speaker she will talk about some of the western campaigns in more detail. We have that coming up. That will be exciting. There are other aspects of the war at home, financing the war womens participation in the war that we will not get to date today, but we will before future classes. I want to start by one of the best books on the revolution is a book called the men who lost america. In this book, it is argued that british generals are often described as incompetent or indecisive, but the author argues that they were smart competitive men accomplished professionals, military professionals, and the reason why they failed is not due to psychotic character fails, but because they faced insurmountable obstacles in trying to fight a war in america. I will lay out some of those obstacles, and they will
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