"... it was a long war, full of wearing, small actions, its theater
stretching from the At. Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico and inland to
the Mississippi River ..."
Aside from a few well-known Generals and major battles,the dimensions
of the Revolutionary War have always been hazy. This book puts together
information that had never been compiled before: frequency of engagements,
casualties in battle, size of the opposing forces, deaths in camp, prisoners
of war, size of the army at any given time, toll number of participants,
geographical spread or concentration of its actions, covering a total of
1,331 military engagements.
The authors argue that the widely-used figures of 4,435 killed and 6,188
wounded in the Revolution, are far below the real number. They count 25,324
deaths, which includes those who died in camp or as prisoners of war.