Roger Lamb's American Revolution: A British Soldier's Story

Featured in Ken Burns The American Revolution on PBS® Of all the British soldiers who served in North America during the American Revolution, none wrote more about his experiences than Roger Lamb.He certainly had a lot to say: his service in two of the most important campaigns-the 1777 Saratoga campaign and the 1781 campaign through the Carolinas to Virginia-put him in the thick of some of the war’s most famous battles.Moreover, he was twice captured and twice escaped, making his way through hostile territory to rejoin the British army.Later in his life he wrote two books chronicling these experiences in great detail.Hundreds of British soldiers went through similar ordeals, sharing in the campaigns, the battles, the captivities, the escapes, but none recounted any aspect of these activities in the level of detail that Lamb did. The first edition of this book, published in 2004, combined all of Roger Lamb’s first-hand recollections from his two books, An Original and Authentic Journal