Kevin J. Weddle is a professor of military theory and strategy at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A West Point graduate, he served in the US Army for twenty-eight years on active duty in command and staff positions in the United States and overseas before retiring as a colonel.
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In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to ... SEE MORE