Making the Best use of your Joint Forces. Joint and Combined Operations on theHudson River, 1777 and 1781

摘要

Allied, joint, and amphibious operations fit within a defensive strategy thatGeneral George Washington and Sir Henry Clinton practiced for most of the war: a war of posts with New York City and the line of the Hudson as the seat of the war. By l775 the British had developed sophisticated doctrine and practices for joint, amphibious operations, which Clinton and Commodore Hotham applied successfully in the Hudson Highlands in October l777. After a disastrous response to that offensive, Washington and Lieutenant General Rocharnbeau threatened New York City with a joint and combined expedition in 1781 that led to ultimate success at Yorktown.