JAMES KIRBY MARTIN is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Houston. Among his many books are Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered, A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763–1789, with Mark Edward Lender, and Theaters of the American Revolution: Northern, Middle, Southern, Western, Naval, edited with David L. Preston (Westholme 2017).