title: The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
author:  Ira D. Gruber 
description: Ira D. Gruber is Harris Masterson Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University. From 1966 to 2009 he taught courses in early American and military history at Rice, the U.S. Military Academy, and the U.S. Army Staff College.
zlib_text: THE HOWE BROTHERS  
   _and the American Revolution_
  
   **THE HOWE BROTHERS**  
   _ **and the American Revolution**_
  
  Ira D. Gruber
  
  ![](Images/image00374.jpeg)
  
  Published for the  
  Institute of Early American History and Culture  
  at Williamsburg, Virginia  
  by The University of North Carolina Press  
  Chapel Hill
  
  The Institute of Early American History and Culture is sponsored jointly by
  the College of William and Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
  
   _Copyright © 1972 by Ira D. Gruber_  
   _All rights reserved_  
   _Manufactured in the United States of America_  
   _Maps drawn by Richard J. Stinely_  
   _ISBN 0-8078-1229-3_  
   _Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 71-183681_  
   _First printing, 1972_  
   _Second printing, 1974_  
  
   _for Pat_
  
   **PREFACE**
  
  This book considers a question that has long been familiar to students of the
  American Revolution. It asks, as did Englishmen of the late eighteenth century
  and as have historians ever since, why the Howe brothers failed in t