Table of Contents

Foreword VII Preface XI CHAPTER ONE: Of Lexington and Concord, and the Myths if the War, 1763--1775 1 Lexington and Concord 1 Of Standing Armies (Power) and Militia (Liberty) 5 Ideological Transmission 9 The Provincial Militia Tradition 14 The Tyranny of Standing Armies 20 Notes 27 CHAPTER TWO: The Republican War, 1775--1776 29 A Republican Order as the Goal 29 Regulars Versus Republicans: The British at Bay 33 The Adoption of a Continental Army 39 The British Military Counterthrust 47 The new York Campaign 52 Success and Failure 60 Notes 63 CHAPTER THREE: Toward an American Standing Army, 1776--1777 65 The Nature of the Continental Army 65 A New Model Army 69 William Howe's Campaign of 1777 77 The Saratoga Campaign 83 The American Search for Manpower 87 The Old Myth and The New Soldiery 95 Notes 98 CHAPTER FOUR: On and Off the Road Despair, 1777--1779 100 Valley Forge 100 Mounting Anger in the Officer Corps 104 Tables Turned: new Life for the Cause 111 The British Dispersal of 1778 119 Growing Internal Division: Army and Society 127 Notes 135 CHAPTER FIVE: Moral Defeat and Military Turnabout, 1779--1781 137 Dispersed Warfare 137 Patriot Naval Exploits 144 Financial Morass on the Home Front 148 The War in the Southern States 154 Treason, Pensions, and Mutinies 159 Sudden Turnabout: The Road to Yorktown 166 Notes 171 CHAPTER SIX: Of War, National Legitimacy, and the Republican Order, 1781--1789 173 The Yorktown Campaign 173 Formulating a Peace Settlement 181 The Newburgh Conspiracy 187 Transition to a Postwar World 195 Myth and Tradition: A Political/Military Settlement 203 Notes 210 A Note on Revolutionary War History and Historiography 213 Index 225 Illustrations follow page 136 Maps Northern Campaigns 34 Southern Campaigns 125 Clark's Western Campaigns, 1778--1779 140

About the Author

James Kirby Martin is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Houston and is the author of many books, including the award-winning Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered . Mark Edward Lender is Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department a Kean University. He has written widely on early American military and social history, and his books include the award-winning Citizen Soldier: The Revolutionary War Journal of Joseph Bloomfield and Drinking in America: A History (both with James Kirby Martin) .

Reviews

Praise for the first edition: " A Respectable Army is an important book for several reasons. It reminds one once again of Washington's contributions to the nation in the 'new modeling' of the army and more particularly in the establishment of a tradition of civil over military authority. It rejects the historical mythology of a patriotic soldiery and demonstrates that, ironically, it was the unpriveleged classes who fought to preserve the liberties of all citizens. Finally, it compresses the 'new' military history into a compact, readable volume and thereby makes current scholarship accessible to a wide audience." ( The North Carolina Historical Review , 1983) "Clear in organization and style... Provocative reading, it should especially appeal to instructors anxious to engender classroom discussion." ( The History Teacher , Spring 1983) "[James Kirby Martin and Mark Edward Lender] have done their job well. Founded on a close reading of the most recent litrerature, A Respectable Army offers a cogent narrative of the social, political, and intellectual developments that shaped the Revolutionary military establishment as well as a fair-minded assessment of current historiographical controversies." ( Journal of Southern History , February 1984)