| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.4

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The Philadelphia Campaign. Vol. 1, Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia. By Thomas J. McGuire. (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006. x, 420 pp. Illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Despite the gentlemanly words used so often to describe eighteenth-century warfare, campaigns and battles were hotly contested events that elicited a brutality and savagery that has been the true hallmark of war in all ages. Local citizens of all political persuasions that were swept up in the tumultuous events of the American Revolution were indelibly marked by their encounters with battle. Thomas J. McGuire's book, The Philadelphia Campaign, reminds readers of the impact that marching armies and bloody battles had on the population of rural America and, perhaps more importantly, of the divisive nature of what truly was a civil war.

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