Strategies and Tactics of the American Revolution | Unconventional Warfare

Many Americans are familiar with the major battles of the Revolutionary War. The battles of Saratoga or Bunker Hill or Yorktown, stand tall in our collective memory. But much of the fighting, in much of the country, often involved fights between groups of less than a hundred participants.

Today we’re going to shed some light on a very dark corner of the fighting that happened in the American Revolution....unconventional warfare!

Source material for this video:

"A People's History of the American Revolution" by Ray Raphael as the source for the David Fanning quotes and the following article in the Journal of the American Revolution for the Colonel Tye story:

Joseph E. Wroblewski, “Colonel Tye: Leader of Loyalists Raiders- And Runaway Slave ,” Journal of the American Revolution, February 17, 2021

Raphael, Ray. "A People's History of the American Revolution: how common people shaped the fight for independence." 2016.

Joseph E. Wroblewski, “Colonel Tye: Leader of Loyalists Raiders- And Runaway Slave ,” Journal of the American Revolution, February 17, 2021

Matthew H. Ward, “Joshua Huddy: Scourge of New Jersey Loyalists,” Journal of the American Revolution, October 8, 2018.