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Book Review
| A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington's Army. By Caroline Cox. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xxiv, 338 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8078-2884-X.)
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| Warfare was an integral part of early American history, and historians have increasingly turned their attention to the military institutions of the colonial and revolutionary periods. In particular, they have examined the social makeup, recruitment, motivation, and service of the forces that fought in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution. Caroline Cox has contributed to this scholarship with a well-crafted study of officer–enlisted man relations in George Washington's Continental Army. |
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