The Specht Journal: A Military Journal of the Burgoyne Campaign

by Helga Doblin (Editor)

Overview

The Specht Jourbanal is one of the major diaries written by Braunschweig military personnel during the Burgoyne campaign of the American Revolutionary War. From the departure from Wolfenbuttel on February 22, 1776 to the end on Winter Hill near Boston on November 9, 1777, the narrator faithfully accounts for each day of the ill-fated campaign. He describes the astonishing affair at Ticonderoga, the short battle at Hubbardton, and the toilsome march south to Fort Miller via Forts Ann and Edward. The campaign ends after two indecisive battles at Saratoga, where Burgoyne, without supplies and badly outnumbered, has to sign a Convention with the victorious American commander Horatio Gates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313294464
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/24/1995
Series:	Contributions in Military Studies , #15
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

HELGA DOBLIN is Professor Emerita for Foreign Languages, Skidmore College. Since her retirement, she has concentrated on translating historical material from the Braunschweig regiments that served in the Burgoyne campaign.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Lists (a-l)
1776 Feb.- Sept.
1776 Sept. - Dec.
1777 May - June
1777 July - Aug.
1777 Aug.
1777 Sept. - Oct.
1777 Oct.
1777 Oct. - Nov.
Endnotes
Appendix
Bibliography
Table of Names
Index

Editorial Reviews

One of the many personal accounts of the 1776-77 raid from Canada against rebellious American colonists by troops the British government borrowed from the Germans. This one written by, or more likely for, Colonel Specht, is unique in being well-focused, vivid, and expressive while recording minute details about every German and British regiment from when they left Brauschweig early in 1776 to the final failure near Boston in late 1777. A German edition in Latin letters was published in 1850. An appendix identifies people named. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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