Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SERGEANT LAMB'S AMERICA - Robert Graves-Random House...
Such a war was the American Revolution. In it fought Sergeant Roger Lamb, whom Officer Robert Graves of the Royal Welch Fusiliers discovered while teaching his platoon their regimental history in 1914. Quarter of a century later, Graves had decided the American Revolution was "the most important single event of modern times." And, visiting in Princeton, N. J., he was struck by the U. S.'s magnificent reception of George VI and his Queen. Graves's thoughts returned to Sergeant Lamb. Result is a fresh and provoking historical romance, Sergeant Lamb's America, out this week...
...book purports to be a soldier's reminiscences, written in 1814. Young Roger Lamb met a recruiting officer in a public house and, several drinks later, found himself sworn in for a long stretch of barrack-room life. In 1776 he was shipped overseas to the rebellious New World. There he defended Montreal from Benedict Arnold's militia, lived with the Indians of the Six Nations to learn wilderness warfare, marched with Burgoyne to recapture Crown Point and Ticonderoga, surrendered honorably to General Gates at Saratoga...
Chapter after chapter of Sergeant Lamb's America is less narrative than informal history. Admits Lamb: "The separation between the Crown and the Colonies must in the nature of things have come about at some time or other, and perhaps it was as well that it came when it did." Even so, his view of the partition is a Redcoat's, not a Yankee's. Without mentioning the Declaration of Independence, Lamb subtly offers the other side of its blistering list of grievances against the "Tyrant," George III. Lamb's own grievance is that, while...
Whereas the Declaration, for example, seethes over British use of "merciless Indian Savages," Lamb remarks that 1) Americans first invited the Indians' aid in 1775, 2) Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington's dignity and Dr. Franklin's ingenuity inspired Lamb's admiration. But he detests the hypocrisy of Demagogue John Hancock and his shyster lawyer Sam Adams, the "moral obliquity" of Boston's pious, greedy merchants...