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The British Campaign of 1777, The St. Leger Expedition. The Forces of Crown and Congress , Second Edition.
By: Gavin Watt & James F. Morrison  
 

The British Campaign of 1777, The St. Leger Expedition. The Forces of Crown and Congress , Second Edition. will appeal to those people who enjoy or need to research the minutae of military campaigns of the American Revolutionary period.

While this book is essentially a military work, many readers will find the book useful for genealogical research.

It is customary for studies of campaigns and expeditions to concentrate on the principal personalities who were responsible for the management of operations. Their characters and performances are revealed, examined and critiqued in depth. By comparison, the 'little' men who commanded batteries, companies and platoons and the even 'littler' men who did the rowing, heaving, carrying, digging, patrolling, guarding, fighting, bleeding and dying are rarely more than name-less cyphers. This study of the St. Leger Expedition provides details including name, rank, regiment and service of many of the men who participated in behalf of the Crown and of those who opposed them.

The British Campaign of 1777, The St. Leger Expedition. The Forces of Crown and Congress , Second Edition. is intended as a companion piece to Gavin Watt's complete campaign history of the St. Leger Expedition (entitled Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley - 1777), which was published in 2002, the year of the 225th mini-bicentennial of the events. While Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley focused on the historical perspective, The British Campaign of 1777 focuses on the individuals who were engaged in this struggle.

This Second Edition is of particular importance because new material came to attention of the authors only eight months after the First Edition was published. That new information precipitated an urgent need for compiling a Second Edition insofar as some units that historians previously considered to have been part of the Expedition have proven to be elsewhere at the time, while others were engaged in the Campaign who were previously thought not to be there.