We are a group of mostly venerable fellows (average age lowering with each new recruit) who play wargames with toy soldiers. We play in an apartment overlooking Corlears Hook, a geographic feature of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. We play all periods from Ancient up through WWII but greatly prefer the period of black powder, powdered wigs, etc. Please click on any pictures to enlarge them.
Monday, November 30, 2020
Book Review: The British Are Coming
I’ve recently finished reading Rick Atkinson’s “The British are Coming”, volume
1 of his planned trilogy on the American Revolution. I’ve read his Liberation
Trilogy about the US Army in the ETO during WWII and was pleased with that. I
like this too and await his next volume.
Atkinson has a number of details that I’ve missed in other accounts, like
British General Clinton’s talented violin playing, or the full story of the
attempted attack by Bushnell’s early submarine "Turtle" in New York harbor. You
can see the maps and illustrations here. The maps are not the detailed tactical maps that we gamers crave, but
they do give a better idea of the operational situation than usual in books
about this war.
I like the illustrations, which include a number of telling portraits of the
principal characters.
'Brigadier Hugh Earl Percy, son of a duke, led a brigade from Boston to reinforce
the battered British regulars retreating from Concord. “I had the happiness,” he
told his father, “of saving them from inevitable destruction.” '
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