Gavin K. Watt is the author of eleven books about loyalist military history, including Burning of the Valleys and Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley. He lives in King City, Ontario.
Examined in light of modern principles of coalition warfare and low
intensity conflict, Mr. Watt’s superb examination of British and
First Nations diplomacy and military operations in the critical
year of 1778 will interest any military historian. But it is also
an essential background for any study of relations between the
Crown and First Nations, in a campaign where Native allies were
truly partners essential to the preservation of Canada. Watt’s
appreciation of the role of First Nations, of women, of
marginalized loyalists and even of the internecine politics inside
the British, Rebel, and First Nations war efforts is an outstanding
contribution to Canadian history and the history of the American
Revolution.
*Christian Cameron, historical novelist*
Now renowned Canadian historian, Gavin K. Watt, gives us the new
definitive history for our era: Building upon Simms’s pioneering
interviews from 175 years ago, but also interrogating and
integrating those oral histories with a vast array of military
correspondence and bureaucratic records from archives that were
essentially unavailable in Simms’s day. No one has told this
“missing chapter” of the War for American Independence so vividly
or so well. A splendid read. In Watt’s lively telling, the
“forgotten year” of the Revolution in New York becomes a
compulsive, all-night page-turner.
*Nicholas Westbrook, Director Emeritus, Fort Ticonderoga*
A perfect snapshot of the complicated human dynamics that steered
the course of the Revolution.
*Journal of the American Revoluton*
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