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Editorial Reviews
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Engaged on September 21, 1777, Paoli was a night attack on a division of George Washington's army, the Pennsylvania Continentals under Anthony Wayne. The senior officer of the British strike force, Gen. Charles Grey, ordered his men to go in with the bayonet, either unloading their muskets or removing the flints. The Americans were overrun and forced to retreat, with losses surprisingly lowAno more than 60 killed in the kind of close-quarter fighting that frequently produced much heavier casualties. Nevertheless, the British use of the bayonet generated a massacre myth that still endures. McGuire, a preparatory school teacher, argues that while some atrocities did occur during the fighting, the Americans were surprised only in a general sense; they were not caught in their blankets. In the aftermath of Paoli, Washington was constrained to abandon Philadelphia. On October 4, when he attacked the British occupiers at Germantown, it was Wayne's division that achieved surprise, taking no prisoners as it charged through the fog, defending a fortified house to the end and finally seizing victory from apparent defeat. If there is a moral here regarding the laws of war, McGuire does not develop it. But his well-written, well-researched case study is a model of local military history.
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On September 21, 1777, colonial rebels defending Philadelphia from British troops camped outside Paoli, Pennsylvania. In a surprise attack, the British under General Charles Grey overwhelmed the sleeping colonial platoons, and a general slaughter of the Americans ensued. In the drizzly darkness, British bayonets repeatedly demonstrated their deadly efficiency. The vicious, hand-to-hand combat quickly passed into infamy as the "Paoli Massacre." General Anthony Wayne's troops were decimated, and Wayne soon faced a court of inquiry for having allowed British troops to come so near his own. Wayne went on to triumph in the Revolution and afterward showed particular talent in battling Native Americans and their allies in the Northwest Territory. Military historian McGuire has researched original sources and shows how propaganda, myth, and legend have obscured the events at Paoli. For military history and regional American Revolution collections. Mark Knoblauch
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Engaged on September 21, 1777, Paoli was a night attack on a division of George Washington's army, the Pennsylvania Continentals under Anthony Wayne. The senior officer of the British strike force, Gen. Charles Grey, ordered his men to go in with the bayonet, either unloading their muskets or removing the flints. The Americans were overrun and forced to retreat, with losses surprisingly lowAno more than 60 killed in the kind of close-quarter fighting that frequently produced much heavier casualties. Nevertheless, the British use of the bayonet generated a massacre myth that still endures. McGuire, a preparatory school teacher, argues that while some atrocities did occur during the fighting, the Americans were surprised only in a general sense; they were not caught in their blankets. In the aftermath of Paoli, Washington was constrained to abandon Philadelphia. On October 4, when he attacked the British occupiers at Germantown, it was Wayne's division that achieved surprise, taking no prisoners as it charged through the fog, defending a fortified house to the end and finally seizing victory from apparent defeat. If there is a moral here regarding the laws of war, McGuire does not develop it. But his well-written, well-researched case study is a model of local military history.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
On September 21, 1777, colonial rebels defending Philadelphia from British troops camped outside Paoli, Pennsylvania. In a surprise attack, the British under General Charles Grey overwhelmed the sleeping colonial platoons, and a general slaughter of the Americans ensued. In the drizzly darkness, British bayonets repeatedly demonstrated their deadly efficiency. The vicious, hand-to-hand combat quickly passed into infamy as the "Paoli Massacre." General Anthony Wayne's troops were decimated, and Wayne soon faced a court of inquiry for having allowed British troops to come so near his own. Wayne went on to triumph in the Revolution and afterward showed particular talent in battling Native Americans and their allies in the Northwest Territory. Military historian McGuire has researched original sources and shows how propaganda, myth, and legend have obscured the events at Paoli. For military history and regional American Revolution collections. Mark Knoblauch
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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