Summary of Thomas Fleming's The Strategy of Victory

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#1 On April 19, 1775, the men of Lexington, Massachusetts, were preparing for a British attack. They were part-time warriors called militia, and they had been designated minutemen by the royal government.

#2 The Lexington militia were ready for the British, but they were not prepared for the British light infantry companies that arrived. The captain turned to his men and told them to disperse without firing, but most of them began to drift away in various directions.

#3 The battle began when the British light infantrymen, who were the front line, stopped and fired their muskets. The second rank stepped to the right, and the third rank stepped to the right. The men had practiced this maneuver multiple times during the winter.

#4 The British marched for Concord, five miles away, oblivious of the fact that they had started a war. They found no gunpowder and very few weapons in Concord, whose residents had anticipated their searches and hidden everything they hoped to find. The British suffered 73 men killed and 174 wounded.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822582675

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Insights on Thomas Fleming's The Strategy of Victory

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On April 19, 1775, the men of Lexington, Massachusetts, were preparing for a British attack. They were part-time warriors called militia, and they had been designated minutemen by the royal government.

#2

The Lexington militia were ready for the British, but they were not prepared for the British light infantry companies that arrived. The captain turned to his men and told them to disperse without firing, but most of them began to drift away in various directions.

#3

The battle began when the British light infantrymen, who were the front line, stopped and fired their muskets. The second rank stepped to the right, and the third rank stepped to the right. The men had practiced this maneuver multiple times during the winter.

#4

The British marched for Concord, five miles away, oblivious of the fact that they had started a war. They found no gunpowder and very few weapons in Concord, whose residents had anticipated their searches and hidden everything they hoped to find. The British suffered 73 men killed and 174 wounded.

#5

The Battle of Lexington was a victory of preparedness, not spontaneous enthusiasm. The Americans who responded to the British challenge were not a mass of disorganized individuals; they were a well-supplied rudimentary army that had been training for six months.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The American version of the Battle of Lexington and Concord was that the British were responsible for the violence, and that the Americans were simply provincials, roused with zeal for their country’s liberties, who fought so well that the loss on the part of the British troops far exceeded that of the patriots.

#2

John Adams, who was president of Congress at the time, proposed Washington as commander in chief of the American army and Congress voted its collective approval. Adams was thinking politically, as New England’s leaders badly needed a man from the largest state to create at least the