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RR 2010/192 American Revolutionary War Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary Bud Hannings McFarland Jefferson, NC 2009 v + 552 pp. ISBN 978 0 7864 4379 6 £103.50/$125
Distributed in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Africa by Europsan
Keywords Dictionaries, Eighteenth century, History, United States of America, War
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121011045881
American Revolutionary War Leaders is similar in coverage to McFarland's earlier publication, American Generals of the Revolutionary War (Broadwater, 2007) (RR 2007/343). This is a larger, more detailed work and shows the author's extensive research to discover information on the wives and families of the subjects.
The volume covers the military and political leaders of the American Revolution, including the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and some of the colonial governors; but it focuses primarily on the military leaders...