| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero. By Michael P. Gabriel. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. 277 pp. $47.50, ISBN 0-8386-3931-3.)

This biography covers familiar ground as a military study, although Michael P. Gabriel unearthed new sources that fill out Richard Montgomery's early life. As a younger son of Irish gentry, he absorbed the social, intellectual, and political values of his time, and he absorbed military culture while a commissioned officer in the British army; those combined into a lifelong devotion to duty and service. He fought in the Americas at the sieges of Louisbourg (1758) and Havana (1762). He met Janet Livingston, his future wife, while recuperating in New York, then he returned to the British Isles where he acquired Rockingham Whig views that made him question the sincerity of British rule in both Ireland and America. Gabriel implies he became a halfway dissenter. Then, frustrated from lack of promotion, Montgomery sold his captaincy in 1772 and migrated to New York. There, he bought into the Hudson River valley gentry and married.

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