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Thanks for the heads-up on this title. I think my father will be getting it to enjoy over the Christmas holiday!
I have some other books by this same publisher and I have been happy with all of them. However, It might be better to order from amazon or from Westholme Publishing themselves. I have used Barnes and Noble twice for this publisher and each time it takes a long time for the warehouse to get a copy. As in 3 months from phone order till actual availibility at the store.......
Noah
I have some other books by this same publisher and I have been happy with all of them. However, It might be better to order from amazon or from Westholme Publishing themselves. I have used Barnes and Noble twice for this publisher and each time it takes a long time for the warehouse to get a copy. As in 3 months from phone order till actual availibility at the store.......
Noah
I am nearly done with this read. The best part of the book may be the opening chapters which set the stage for the battle itself. I found much of this background information both new and interesting. It then settles into a relatively 'standard' tell of the battle.
There is another book available on the Siege by Edward Dodge "Relief is Greatly Wanted" or something like that. Hughes uses Dodge as a source, but the Dodge volume includes long passages of actual correspondence. Dodge's book gives a very different favor to the battle with more empahsis on the colonial participation. For the rivet counters, Monro correspondence was somewhat puzzling as he kept referring to 10-pounders and never 9-pounders. But the colonial diaries talk about 9-pounders and never 10 pounders .........
Some of the same material is presented in both volumes, but Dodge does something very different from all the other volumes on the battle and moves the colonial encampment immediately abutting the fort to the west and south. Not to the hill to the southeast, as every other author states. Huge difference really.
Hughes freely uses Dodge as a source, but does not approach the topic of Dodge's claim of where the camp really is and adopts the standard southeast camp. I just wished he had discussed Dodge's claim.
If you get hooked on the Hughes volume, the Dodge volume will be a great read.
As an historian Hughes suffers the standard inability to accurately count artillery pieces within a paragraph ----- something like "the fort mounted 24 pieces --- 18 were cannon, 3 mortars and 1 howitzer". Which of course doesn't add up to original 24 piece total (2 pieces MIA). And for us rivet counters, such sloppy work is damm annoying!!!
A key source of information for the battle are the Lord Loudoun Papers which are housed in the Huntington Library in California. But they are not scanned and as a reader you can't check the original source materials or read the actual correspondence. There is alot of information alluded to in Hughes book where I wanted to read the Loudoun source material, but you can't.
There is another book available on the Siege by Edward Dodge "Relief is Greatly Wanted" or something like that. Hughes uses Dodge as a source, but the Dodge volume includes long passages of actual correspondence. Dodge's book gives a very different favor to the battle with more empahsis on the colonial participation. For the rivet counters, Monro correspondence was somewhat puzzling as he kept referring to 10-pounders and never 9-pounders. But the colonial diaries talk about 9-pounders and never 10 pounders .........
Some of the same material is presented in both volumes, but Dodge does something very different from all the other volumes on the battle and moves the colonial encampment immediately abutting the fort to the west and south. Not to the hill to the southeast, as every other author states. Huge difference really.
Hughes freely uses Dodge as a source, but does not approach the topic of Dodge's claim of where the camp really is and adopts the standard southeast camp. I just wished he had discussed Dodge's claim.
If you get hooked on the Hughes volume, the Dodge volume will be a great read.
As an historian Hughes suffers the standard inability to accurately count artillery pieces within a paragraph ----- something like "the fort mounted 24 pieces --- 18 were cannon, 3 mortars and 1 howitzer". Which of course doesn't add up to original 24 piece total (2 pieces MIA). And for us rivet counters, such sloppy work is damm annoying!!!
A key source of information for the battle are the Lord Loudoun Papers which are housed in the Huntington Library in California. But they are not scanned and as a reader you can't check the original source materials or read the actual correspondence. There is alot of information alluded to in Hughes book where I wanted to read the Loudoun source material, but you can't.
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Picked up one of these for my Dad's upcoming birthday. It was no problem getting one from Amazon. On first glance, it looks pretty good. This company, Westholme, has done some other worthy books, like Braddock's March and The Rhode Island Campaign. If you go to thier website, they have a decent selection of Colonial/Revolutionary Era books.
Noah
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