Five Best: John Ferling
On the Revolutionary War (Wall Street Journal)


1. Paul Revere’s Ride By David Hackett Fischer (1994)
2. The War for America, 1775-1783 By Piers Mackesy (1964)
3. The Men Who Lost America By Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy (2013)
4. A Devil of a Whipping By Lawrence E. Babits (1998)
5. The War of American Independence By Don Higginbotham (1971)

Two recent articles on the Revolutionary War by John Ferling, the first dealing with the relationship between Sir Henry Clinton and Charles, Earl Cornwallis, and the second with the decisive engagement at Yorktown. Both appeared in American History Magazine on H-Net:    

https://www.historynet.com/how-the-colonists-beat-britains-best.htm

https://www.historynet.com/brit-blew-it-at-yorktown.htm

See also “Sir Henry Clinton’s Generalship” – Journal  of the American Revolution (April 27, 2021)   

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/04/sir-henry-clintons-generalship/

Also see:  “The Troubled Relationship Between Clinton and Cornwallis and their ‘War’ After the Revolutionary War” Journal of the American Revolution (July 15, 2021)  

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/07/the-troubled-relationship-between-clinton-and-cornwallis-and-their-war-after-the-war/