{"id":62654,"date":"2025-02-01T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/book-review-of-the-war-of-american-independence-1775-1783\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:09:03","slug":"book-review-of-the-war-of-american-independence-1775-1783","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=62654","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of The War of American Independence, 1775-1783"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>Richard Middleton. <em>The War of American Independence, 1775-1783<\/em>. Modern Wars in Perspective series. Harlow, England: Pearson Education, 2012. ISBN 978-0-582-22942-6. Maps. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Pp. xvi, 351. $44.00 (paperback).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/internationalhistory.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/middleton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2050\" src=\"http:\/\/internationalhistory.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/middleton.jpg?w=99&amp;h=150\" height=\"150\" width=\"99\" alt=\"Richard Middleton\"\/><\/a>Dr Richard Middleton provides a superb up-to-date synthesis of published primary works and modern historical studies focusing on the political, military, naval, and diplomatic aspects of the American War of\u00a0Independence (1775-1783).\u00a0 Middleton is an independent scholar and a\u00a0former Reader in American History at Queen\u2019s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.\u00a0 He is the author of <em>The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years War, 1757-1762<\/em> (1985),\u00a0<em>Colonial America, A History, 1565-1776 <\/em>(Third edition, 2002), and <em>Pontiac\u2019s War: Its Causes, Course and Consequences<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Middleton depicts the origins, course, and outcome of the War of American Independence.\u00a0\u00a0The author focuses on the leadership of the Britain, the Patriots and Loyalists, France, and Spain.\u00a0\u00a0He emphasizes British strategy (when\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Middleton. 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