Table of Contents:
  • The first session. Harmon Memorial Lecture. The American Revolution today / John Shy
  • The second session. Strategy revisited. The origins of British strategy in the War for American Independence / Ira D. Gruber
  • American strategy reconsidered / Dave R. Palmer
  • Commentary / George A. Billias
  • The banquet address. A seaman's view of the American Revolution / John D. Hayes
  • The third session. What kind of war? Civil, revolutionary, or partisan : the Loyalists and the nature of the War for Independence / Robert M. Calhoon
  • The murder of the militia system in the aftermath of the American Revolution / Richard H. Kohn
  • Commentary / Don Higginbotham
  • The fourth session. Generalship and soldiership. Washington and his lieutenants : some problems in command / George F. Scheer
  • The common soldier in the American Revolution / John R. Sellers
  • Commentary / Theodore Ropp
  • The wrap-up session. The sixth military history symposium in perspective. Commentary / Linda Grant DePauw ; Commentary / John D. Brett ; Commentary / Louis Morton.