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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown. By Nathaniel Philbrick. (New York, NY: Viking, 2018. Pp. xv, 366. $30.00.) In his third book [...]

Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636-2000. By Michael D. Doubler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 460. $17.95.) The Rise of the National [...]

British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America, by Stephen J. Hornsby. Hanover, New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 2005. xviii, 307 pp. $60.00 US [...]

George Rogers Clark: 'I Glory in War'. By William R. Nester. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 386. $39.95.) George Rogers Clark summarized his campaigns in the [...]

Defending the Old Dominion: Virginia and Its Militia in the War of 1812. By Stuart L. Butler. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: University Press of America, 2013. Pp. xx, 622. [...]

The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry, by Melissa Walker. Critical Moments in American History Series. New York, Routledge, 2013. xvi, 193 pp. [...]

In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. By Richard Buel Jr. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 397. $35.00.) The American Revolutionary War [...]

The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781. By Jerome A. Greene. (New York: Savas Beatie, 2005. Pp xx, 507. $34.95, ISBN 1-932714-05-7.) This most recent work on the [...]

Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift. By Thomas E. Chavez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 286. $29.95.) Students of the American [...]

Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic. By John Resch. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 319. $40.00.) When he began [...]

An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. By Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 357. $22.50.) Much of the recent scholarship on [...]

The article investigates the failure of Lieutenant-Colonel Heinrich Breymann at the Battle of Bennington in New York on August 16, 1777. It is inferred that Breymann's unsuccessful attempt to rescue the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Friedrich Baum resulted to the annihilation of Baum's force by General John Stark's American militia. The efforts of military officers and historians to examine the causes of Breymann's failure at Bennington is explored.