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[edit] Citations and Controversy

Gen. Wadsworth testified in the courts-martial and his testimony is available on the web, I will try to locate it. There is a lot of controversy over the responsibility of Commodore Saltonstall vs Gen Lovell and Col. Revere. Historically, this has been blamed on the Navy. Courts-martial in those days were often used as a formal way to exonerate as well as to discipline a person, and Massachusetts had a lot invested in Col. Revere (not to mention his foundry was a supplier of canon, thus his position). I have not yet read Buker's work, but it is published by the Naval Institute and Buker is a retired naval officer. I understand it attempts to repudiate the Navy's responsibility. What this really is, however, is a failure and major lesson in combined arms/joint operations. The Army has not recently studied this battle formally that I am aware of, but IMO it deserves more attention.

Do we really know that the troops went overland back to Boston? Gen. Wadsworth led them overland and he was posted to the Province of Maine. Again, I will look for sources, but I believe that Gen. Lovell, although nominally in charge of the Army, remained aboard ship with the Commodore and that Gen. Wadsworth was the commander on the field.Doug. 23:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC)