| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army. By Harry M. Ward. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. xvi, 268 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8093-2688-4.)

Harry M. Ward examines military justice in the Continental army and the troops who enforced it. He is particularly interested in the experiences of enlisted men. Ward finds that the Continental army was similar to eighteenth-century European armies in its emphasis on strict discipline and use of brutal punishments. However, the revolutionaries experimented with various means of policing the army. Ward shows that most troops performing police functions temporarily rotated to this duty from other units. As a result, the revolutionaries did not create significant professional military police forces. Ward also argues that "punishment in the American army was slightly more humane than in the British military system" (p. xi).

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