pstrongRoger Lamb's war in America plus two regimental historiesstrongppbrppEvery published recollection written by a soldier-irrespective of the time and conflict in which he served-is of inestimable value to posterity and to the historians and students that read them. Some achieve particular recognition . They may be particularly well written, some are especially rare in their subject material or particularly riveting in the tale they tell. Some, despite all of these considerations of quality being present, nevertheless, remain obscure. This account by Roger Lamb of his time serving as a British infantryman in America during the American War of Independence American Revolutionmay well be said to owe its enduring renown to the fact that the author and central character was adopted by the author and poet, Robert Graves 'I, Claudius' for two novels written during the early 1940's. The actual Roger Lamb's military career which inspired Graves and is recounted in these pages was certainl