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Profiles the life of Seven Years' War veteran and British general during the American Revolutionary War battle of Bunker Hill.
This edited work is the collection of orderly assignments issued by General William Howe during his tenure in the United States during the revolution. The book contains general orders, remarks, battle and force returns, and some rosters of men.
Finalist • George Washington Book Prize New York Times Book Review • Editors’ Choice Finally revealing the family’s indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British General Sir William Howe and Richard Admiral Lord Howe, in a London drawing room for “half a dozen Games of Chess.” But as historian Julie Flavell reveals, these meetings were about much more than board games: they were cover for a last-ditch attempt to forestall the outbreak of the American War of Independence. Aware that the distinguished Howe family, both the me...