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Peckham, Howard H. The Toll of Independence: Engagements and Battle Casualties of the American Revolution. Carrington, Henry B. Battles of the American Revolution 1775–1781. New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1877. Peckham, Howard H. The War for Independence: A Military History.

Medical Men in the American Revolution, 369. The often transient and inter- mittent nature of military service during the American Revolution made it hard to find accurate data regarding troop strength and casualty. The often transient and inter- mittent nature of military service during the American Revolution made it hard to find accurate data regarding troop strength and casualty statistics. The passage of the Revolutionary War Pension Act of 1818 resulted in a flood of applications by veterans far exceeding congressional estimates of eligibility. Over eighty thousand pension files exist in the National Archives Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, M804

Howard Henry Peckham’s The Toll of Independence: Engagements & Battle Casualties of the American Revolution 2 is the most extensive published list. It expands the total to 1,330 military and 220 naval engagements.

Howard Henry Peckham’s The Toll of Independence: Engagements & Battle Casualties of the American Revolution 2 is the most extensive published list. However, neither list provides bibliographic references for these encounters.

82 Howard H. Peckham, e. The Toll of Independence: Engagements and Battle Casualties of the American Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974). 83 See David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 31. 84 Hannah Arendt, The New Yorker (12 September 1970), quotation no. 3984, The Columbia World of Quotations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), ww. artleby.

The Toll of Independence: Engagements and Battle Casualties of the American Revolution. Christopher Collier, Howard Henry Peckham. Within three decades of its refounding in Ann Arbor in 1837, the University of Michigan became the largest and arguably most progressive university in the United States. By century's end, it. More).

An example is The Toll of Independence: Engagements and Battle Casualties of the American Revolution (Univ. of Chicago, 1974), by Howard Peckham, the standard reference for casualties of the American Revolution. In addition, there are no citations to sources of information used within the text, and this is a serious shortcoming for scholars. Warfare and Armed Conflicts, although not quite as far-reaching as some in its treatment of ancient history, has more overall coverage of conflicts and excels in modern coverage.

Nevertheless, the numbers are often repeated without this warning, such as on the United States Department.

Because of incomplete records, Peckham estimated that this.

The American War of Independence, also called the American Revolution, or the American Revolutionary War . Number of casualties in the battles of Lexington and Concord: British: 73 killed, 174 wounded, 26 missing American: 93 dead, wounded, or missing (some say 95).

The American War of Independence, also called the American Revolution, or the American Revolutionary War, was fought from 1775 until 1783. Declaration of Independence: July 4th 1776. The Americans were ready to drive the British out of Boston and started the Siege of Boston. Map of the Battle of Lexington and Concord April 19, 1775. What Ended the American Revolution? The last major battle took place on October 19, 1781.

Note the American Battle Monuments Commission database for the World War II reports that in 18 ABMC Cemeteries .

Note the American Battle Monuments Commission database for the World War II reports that in 18 ABMC Cemeteries total of 93,238 buried and 78,979 missing and that "The World War II database on this web site contains the names of those buried at our cemeteries, or listed as Missing in Action, buried or lost at sea. It does not contain the names of the 233,174 Americans returned to the United States for burial. Howard H. The Toll of Independence: Engagements & Battle Casualties of the American Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), xii. ↑ Peckham, Toll of Independence, 131.