. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . period under present review comprises about forty[759. years, dating from the death of Wolfe forward. The subject admits of discursive treatment withoutviolating the unity of the purpose. Materials andinformation about both Services, Navy and Army, donot lie on the surface of things. It was an age carelessof the poor, and still more careless of its poor to apprehend the work, sufi^erings, and failures ofthe Englishmen whose blood
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . period under present review comprises about forty[759. years, dating from the death of Wolfe forward. The subject admits of discursive treatment withoutviolating the unity of the purpose. Materials andinformation about both Services, Navy and Army, donot lie on the surface of things. It was an age carelessof the poor, and still more careless of its poor to apprehend the work, sufi^erings, and failures ofthe Englishmen whose blood was freely shed on everyshore, one must know a little about the conditions oftheir homes, their work, their life and death. Theextreme reaction from the callous mismanagement byService Departments in the eighteenth century andafter, up to the time of the Crimean War, and fromthe public indifference and contempt formerly mani-fested towards Englands sailors and soldiers is in itselfa measure of reproach. Scanty indeed was the grati-tude displayed by our not remote forefathers towardsthose children of the field and of the workshop whose242. Thk Honblk. Sir Wm. Howe, Knight of the Bath, ami Commander of His Majestys Forces in America. Drawn and engraved by Corbutt, and published by John Morris, loth November 1777. FORCES OF THE CROWN 243 blood cemented the Empire of Britain, Probably themost sinister feature of the systematic misrepresenta-tions of the lives and conduct of our men has beenthe blackening of their characters by highly placedofficers and Whig historians. The fact, however,remains that the Navy and Army of England, tweendecks, on shore, in camp, or in barracks, reproduced intheir speech, habits, behaviour, and ways of thought, thesalient features of the coarse and violent society of whichthey were for the most part the unwilling defenders. It is computed that in the summer of 1776 therewere on duty in America, inclusive of 2000 marines,about 36,000 British and German
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