An important note on shipping: This book is shipped directly by the author via Media Mail. If you order other items from our store, those items will be shipped separately. Allow at least two weeks for delivery.
Hardcover (256 pages), with dust jacket. Signed by the author, Steven W. Hill. You may also request an inscription or dedication. Includes sheets with information based on research and discoveries since the book was published.
An important note on scope: This book covers foreign armies and regiments—Britain, France, Germany, and Spain—and does not include the flags of Patriot forces. Those will be covered in Steven's next book, and we'll carry that when it comes out.
From the publisher
Flags are an important part of the military history of colonial America. Not only are they essential artifacts that help reconstruct battles and wars and the stories of various regiments, but they are also vivid, colorful, evocative visual depictions of wars from an era before photography. In this meticulously researched book, military flag expert Steven W. Hill displays and explains the flags of the regiments which fought in North America in the French and Indian War and the American War of Independence.
Comprehensive and in-depth, Battle Flags of the Wars for North America, 1754–1783: Foreign Armies and Regiments covers the regimental flags of the major combatants in the two major wars for North American in the eighteenth century—flags carried by regiments from Britain, France, Germany, and Spain. This has long been a subject surrounded by myth, legend, and inaccuracy; the last “standard” work is more than forty years old. Hill digs deep to correct old errors and assembles a complete record of the flags, drawing from archives and artifacts, and creates a reference that will stand the test of time—not only during the coming 250th anniversary years, but far beyond.
About the author
Steven W. Hill has been researching military flags and colors, with special focus on the regimental colors of the five major combatants in the American War for Independence—American, French, British, German, and Spanish—for over 50 years. He has worked as curator and historian at both the current Massachusetts State House and The Old State House in Boston, the Historical Society of Delaware, the Indiana War Memorials in Indianapolis, and most recently at the National Museum of Health and Medicine—formerly the Army Medical Museum. In addition to his “regular” curatorial positions, Hill is a researcher and maker of reproduction flags for museums, the military and government, reenactment groups, tv and movies, including flags of the French and British troops in the movie “Last of the Mohicans.” He is also a consultant to museums, publishers, and historical painters on the details of military flags and their histories.
Shipping
This book is shipped directly by the author via Media Mail. If you order other items from our store, those items will be shipped separately. Allow at least two weeks for delivery.