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4 - The American Revolution
- By Williamson Murray
Edited by Williamson Murray, Ohio State University, Peter R. Mansoor, Ohio State University
Book:

Hybrid Warfare

Published online:

05 August 2012

Print publication:

09 July 2012, pp 72-103
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This chapter addresses the peculiar framework within which the combatants in the Revolutionary War operated, particularly the British. In examining both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, the historian is struck by the logistical difficulties the British faced in projecting power from the British Isles across the Atlantic. The Continentals represented the element that allows the Revolutionary War to fall within the framework of what has now been termed hybrid war. The French assaults on Hoa Binh and Phu Doan share similarities with those of the British against Lexington and Concord and from Canada aimed at controlling the Hudson River. Finally, one might note that both the British and the French efforts ended ingloriously with the siege of forces they had launched deep into enemy-held territory: for the British at Yorktown; for the French at Dien Bien Phu.