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Welcome to the American Revolutionary War task force of the Military history WikiProject! The task force coordinators are TomStar81 (talk), Lordoliver (talk) and Jackyd101 (talk).

Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 3 Tagging and assessment 4 Templates 4.1 User Boxes 5 Categories 6 To-do 7 Resources 7.1 Annotated bibliography 7.1.1 Encyclopedias 7.1.2 Biographical dictionaries 7.1.3 Continental Army organization 7.1.4 British Army organization 7.1.5 Pictures 7.2 Portals

[edit] Scope

This task force covers all topics related to the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence. It can be considered to be a subgroup of the Early Modern warfare task force, whose scope includes every such topic.

[edit] Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.

1. Alphageekpa (talk · contribs)
2. Bedford (talk · contribs)
3. Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs)
4. BusterD (talk · contribs)
5. Christian_Historybuff (talk · contribs)
6. cvalin (talk · contribs) (especially the Royal Navy during the Revolution)
7. Dashiellx (talk · contribs)
8. Kevin Myers (talk · contribs) (particularly the western theater—Clark and Boone and all that)
9. Kieran4 (talk · contribs)-(Battles of the New York and New Jersey campaign, for the most part.)
10. Lordoliver (talk · contribs)
11. Magicpiano (talk · contribs) (mainly Boston campaign, Invasion of Canada (1775), miscellaneous events in and around New England)
12. Marc29th (talk · contribs)
13. Mingusboodle (talk · contribs)
14. North Shoreman (talk · contribs)
15. Oldwildbill (talk · contribs)
16. Red4tribe (talk · contribs)
17. Secisek (talk · contribs)
18. Shirulashem (talk · contribs)
19. Supergodzilla2090 (talk · contribs)
20. Tanthalas39 (talk · contribs)
21. The Founders Intent (talk · contribs)
22. TomStar81 (talk · contribs)

[edit] Tagging and assessment

American Revolutionary War task force assessment statistics American Revolutionary War articles Importance None Total Quality FA 8 8 A 5 5 GA 39 39 B 86 86 Start 789 789 Stub 527 527 Assessed 1454 1454 Total 1454 1454 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding ARW-task-force=yes (or ARW=yes) to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:American Revolutionary War task force articles (and into Category:Early Modern warfare task force articles).

[edit] Templates

[edit] User Boxes

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[edit] Categories

[edit] To-do

• Tag articles.
• Recruit interested editors.
• Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
• Expand the open task listing above.
• Add things here!

[edit] Resources

• Add things here!

[edit] Annotated bibliography

Please use the following format when adding works:

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[edit] Encyclopedias

• Blanco, Richard L. and Paul J. Sanborn, eds. The American Revolution, 1775–1783: An Encyclopedia. 2 volumes. New York: Garland, 1993. ISBN 0-8240-5623-X.

• Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Revised ed. New York: McKay, 1974. ISBN 0-8117-0578-1.
  • Reviews:
    • "[O]ne of the best historical reference books ever written." (Purcell, Who Was Who in the American Revolution)
  • Editor comments:
    • A classic, written by an American officer with unvarnished biases (particularly against meddling civilian officials and bumbling amateur soldiers). Outdated in some areas but still worth a look on military topics. —K.M.
    • Decent book, but some multi-volume histories on the ARW have more content. BradMajors (talk) 20:32, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• Fremont-Barnes, Gregory and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History. 5 volumes. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2006. ISBN 1-85109-408-3.

• Selesky, Harold E., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: Library of Military History. 2 volumes. Detroit: Scribner's, 2006. ISBN 0-684-31513-0.
  • Content:
    • A revised and expanded version of Boatner's Encyclopedia.
  • Editor comments:
    • This edition leaves out Boatner's parenthetical citations, so for serious research you'll still need to consult the original to track down the sources. —K.M.

[edit] Biographical dictionaries

When writing biography, be sure to check the premier scholarly biographical dictionaries: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (British), Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and American National Biography. Entries are usually written by experts familiar with the primary sources, so these works are essentially secondary sources rather than tertiary sources (like most encyclopedias).

• Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Scribner's, 1928–64. 11 volumes.
  • Editor comments:
    • Superseded by the American National Biography, although some obscure persons are covered in this collection but not in the new one. —K.M.

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 15 volumes to date. University of Toronto Press, 1966–. Online version.
  • Editor comments:
    • One of the best free online sources. If your subject has a Canadian connection, check here. Some obscure persons are covered here and practically nowhere else. —K.M.

• Garraty, John A. and Mark C. Carnes, eds. American National Biography. 26 vols to date. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0195206355.
  • Editor comments:
    • If you're writing biography on someone who lived in North America during the war, check here first. Available online via subscription; print and online versions available in larger libraries in the US.

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004–. 60 volumes to date. Available online in some large libraries.

• Purcell, L. Edward. Who Was Who in the American Revolution. New York: Facts on File, 1993. ISBN 0-8160-2107-4.
  • Editor comments:
    • A tertiary source, draws especially from Boatner's Encyclopedia and the Dictionary of American Biography. Good for writing brief biographies on obscure persons if you don't have more detailed sources. Not to be confused with Who Was Who During the American Revolution (1976), which is much more limited. —K.M.

[edit] Continental Army organization

• Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. New, enlarged, and revised edition. Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914. Available on Google Book Search.
  • Content:
    • Service records of Continental Army officers, plus some state/militia officers.
  • Reviews:
    • "This is the authority on military records, and it may be contradicted only on very firm evidence to the contrary." (Purcell, Who Was Who in the American Revolution)
• Wright, Robert K. The Continental Army. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1983. Available, in part, online from the U.S. Army website.

[edit] British Army organization

• Curtis, Edward, Organization of the British Army in the American Revolution, 1926
  • Reviews:
    • Gives a very high level overview of the British Army in the ARW. Some, but very limited information on individual units. Better resources can be found elsewhere.
      • Can be found online here

• Katcher, Philip, Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775-1783, 1973, ISBN 0811705420
  • Reviews:
    • Lists all the regiments under British command that served in the American Revolutionary War. Includes for each regiment its service record and commanders and does a pretty good job. This books is like the 'Wright' book but for British units.

• Army Lists, 1775-1783
  • Reviews:
    • This should be the definitive source for British officer service records... if you can find a copy.

• A List of general and staff officers on the establishment in North America, 1755-1782
  • Reviews:
    • While the index is widely available on the web, the content is hard to find.

[edit] Pictures

A number of national libraries, and several large city public libraries have digital collections that include historic maps, and images of notable people.

• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
• Boston Public Library's Norman B. Leventhal Map Center has a collection of Revolutionary War maps
• American Memory from the Library of Congress
• British Library Online Gallery
• Gallica and Gallica2 at the French National Library
• Canadian Archives
• IRIS at the Quebec National Library and Archive
• National Library of Australia Digital Collection also a small number of period maps
• Darlington Map Collection at the University of Pittsburgh

Leadership studies

Battle and campaign studies

Atlases

General histories

[edit] Portals