Chandler, J;
(2020)
The Continental Army and ‘Military Europe’: Professionalism and Restraint in the American War of Independence.
War in History
10.1177/0968344520913594.
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Abstract
Most historians now agree that the United States won its independence not with citizen-soldiers but through the exertions of a small coterie of hardened military professionals. These men fought for eight years in George Washington’s Continental Army which, these historians maintain, was fundamentally different from contemporary European institutions. This article argues that this distinction is largely overstated. Continental officers and soldiers considered themselves as members of a military community which traversed national and institutional boundaries. Their adherence to a set of common norms, customs, and behaviours suggests that, far from unique, the Continental Army was an extension of ‘Military Europe’.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Continental Army and ‘Military Europe’: Professionalism and Restraint in the American War of Independence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0968344520913594 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344520913594 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10118206 |
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