Richard Middleton, British academic, specialist in Eighteenth Century British and American History. Born 1941, Fellow of the Institute of Early American History and Culture (1972-74), Reader in American History at Queen's University Belfast (1985-2005), latterly independent scholar.
Publications Books: The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Year's War, 1757-1762 (Cambridge University Press, 1985) Colonial America: A History, 1565-1776 (Blackwell, Oxford, 3rd edition, 2002) Amherst and the Conquest of Canada: Selected Papers (Army Records Society, Sutton, 2003) Pontiac's War: Its Causes, Course and Consequences, 1763-1765 (Routledge, New York, 2007) The American War of Independence, 1775-1783 (Pearson, Harlow, 2012) Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World (Yale University Press, 2022)
Articles on British naval and military history in: Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, History, Mariner's Mirror, Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, Journal of American Studies, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Michigan Historical Review