Military leadership in the American Revolutionary War
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A great number of military leaders played a role in the American Revolutionary War.
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[edit] United States
When the war began, the American colonists did not have a regular army (also known as a "standing army"). Each colony had traditionally provided for its own defenses through the use of local militia.
[edit] Continental army
Seeking to coordinate military efforts, the Continental Congress established (on paper) a regular army—the Continental Army—in June 1775, and appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief. The development of the Continental Army was always a work in progress, and Washington reluctantly augmented the regular troops with militia throughout the war.
- Conway Cabal
- Newburgh Conspiracy
- Charles Lee
- William Smallwood
- John Eager Howard
- Daniel Brodhead
- William Crawford
- Edward Hand
[edit] American militia
[edit] Frontier
[edit] International leaders allied with the American Patriots
- Johann de Kalb
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
- Francisco de Miranda
- Kazimierz Pułaski
- Friedrich von Steuben
- Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
- John Paul Jones
[edit] British Empire
[edit] Government officials
[edit] British army
[edit] Commanders in chief in North America
[edit] Other military officers
- Benedict Arnold
- John Burgoyne
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- Simon Fraser of Lovat
- Simon Fraser of Balnian
- Henry Hamilton
- Banastre Tarleton
- Johann Rall
[edit] Rangers and Indian Department officials
[edit] French & Spanish leaders
- Comte d'Estaing (admiral)
- Comte de Grasse (admiral)
- Marquis de Lafayette (Continental Army officer)
- Pierre-Charles L'Enfant (Army officer)
- Jacques-Donatien Le Ray (diplomat)
- Comte de Rochambeau (commander of French army in America)
- Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (foreign minister)
- Bernardo de Gálvez (Commander-in-Chief of Spanish colonial forces)
- Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo (general)
- Francisco Saavedra de Sangronis (colonial official)
- Juan de Lángara (admiral)
[edit] Native Americans
- Joseph Brant (Mohawk)
- Blue Jacket (Shawnee)
- Cornplanter (Seneca)
- Cornstalk (Shawnee)
- Dragging Canoe (Chickamauga Cherokee)
- Dunquat (the Wyandot "Half-King")
- Guyasuta (Seneca)
- Red Jacket (Seneca)
- White Eyes (Lenape)
- Captain Pipe (Lenape)
- Buckongahelas (Lenape)
[edit] References
- Black, Jeremy. War for America: The Fight for Independence, 1775–1783. St. Martin's Press (New York) and Sutton Publishing (UK), 1991. ISBN 0-312-06713-5 (1991), ISBN 0-312-12346-9 (1994 paperback), ISBN 0-7509-2808-5 (2001 paperpack).
- Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. New York: McKay, 1966; revised 1974. ISBN 0-8117-0578-1.
[edit] Further reading
- Anderson, Troyer Steele. The Command of the Howe Brothers During the American Revolution. New York and London, 1936.
- Buchanan, John. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution. Wiley, 2004. ISBN 0-471-44156-2.
- Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-517034-2. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History.
- Lengel, Edward G. General George Washington: A Military Life. New York: Random House, 2005. ISBN 1-4000-6081-8.
- McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-2671-2.
