Journal Of Captain Pausch, Chief Of The Hanau Artillery During The Burgoyne Campaign

A Hessian artillery captain, marching with Burgoyne towards the Hudson, kept a cool, meticulous record of a doomed campaign. His journal became one of the clearest foreign eyes on the American Revolution. These pages crackle with immediacy. Journal of Captain Pausch, Chief of the Hanau Artillery during the Burgoyne Campaign, is a revolutionary war journal and eighteenth century memoir in one: an on-the-ground military history diary of Burgoyne's invasion of 1777, from Canada to the tense advances of the Burgoyne Hudson Valley campaign and the 1777 Saratoga campaign. Observant yet unpretentious, Pausch writes as a professional soldier among British German mercenaries and Hessian artillery officers, noting marches, fortifications, hardships and shifting morale in the American revolutionary war north. For students of military history and general readers alike, this is an essential revolutionary war primary source, valued as a reliable military history reference book and one of the most vivid Hessian diaries American Revolution scholars draw upon. It preserves the voice of a working officer rather than a later historian, revealing how terrain, weather, supply, command decisions and cultural misunderstandings shaped the fate of an army. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.