Tyler's "The Literary History of the
American Revolution, 2 vols. (1897), is a penetrating study of
opinion. Fiske's "The American Revolution", 2 vols. (1891), and
Sydney George Fisher's "The Struggle for American Independence",
2 vols. (1908), are popular works. The short volume of Van Tyne
is based upon extensive research. The attention of English
writers has been drawn in an increasing degree to the Revolution.
Lecky, "A History of England in the Eighteenth Century", chaps.
XIII, XIV, and XV (1903), is impartial. The most elaborate and
readable history is Trevelyan, "The American Revolution", and his
"George the Third" and "Charles Fox" (six volumes in all,
completed in 1914). If Trevelyan leans too much to the American
side the opposite is true of Fortescue, "A History of the British
Army", vol. III (1902), a scientific account of military events
with many maps and plans. Captain Mahan, U. S. N., wrote the
British naval history of the period in Clowes (editor), "The
Royal Navy, a History", vol. III, pp. 353-564 (1898). Of great
value also is Mahan's "Influence of Sea Power on History" (1890)
and "Major Operations of the Navies in the War of Independence"
(1913). He may be supplemented by C. O. Paullin's "Navy of the
American Revolution" (1906) and G.
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