This work is partly a regimental history, giving the most detailed account yet of the 33rds actions during the Revolutionary War. It is also, however, a broader study of the British Army during the revolutionary era. It assesses what a single regiment can tell us about wider issues affecting Britains military. Everything from training, weapons and uniforms, organisation, transportation, camp life, discipline, food, finances and the role of women and camp followers is addressed alongside the marching, fighting and dying done by the men of the regiment between 1775 and 1783.
Primary sources, particularly engaging accounts such as those of Captain William Dansey or John Robert Shaw, a regular enlisted man, provide an engrossing narrative to this part social, part military history of the British Army at war in the late eighteenth century.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
McNiven, Robbie
Title
The Pattern. The 33rd Regiment and the British Infantry Experience during the American Revolution, 1770-1783
Details
English text, paperback, 26 bw- and 20 colour illustrations, 15 maps. 266 pages.
