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Battle of Monmouth

28 June 1778
New Jersey
Draw

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.

Great Britain (Br Army, 13,000 men under Clinton) attacked USA (Am Army, 11,000 men under Washington) in New Jersey. The CAA Database of Battles records 7 hours of fighting on a front of 1 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense, and that neither side won. Losses: Great Britain 358 (3%), USA 362 (3%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

Great Britain

Clinton

Unit	Arm	Men
Great Britain left wing	Infantry	3,062
Great Britain centre	Infantry	4,083
Great Britain right wing	Infantry	3,062
Great Britain reserve	Infantry	2,552
Great Britain artillery (16 guns)	Artillery	240
Clinton	Commander	—
In this plan		12,999

USA

Washington

Unit	Arm	Men
USA left wing	Infantry	2,590
USA centre	Infantry	3,453
USA right wing	Infantry	2,590
USA reserve	Infantry	2,158
USA artillery (14 guns)	Artillery	210
Washington	Commander	—
In this plan		11,001

What the sources report

	Great Britain	USA
Strength, this plan	13,000	11,000
Losses, this plan	358	362

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 90, “Monmouth Court House”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 7 hours
Winner: the draw
Terrain: Rolling, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Hot, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Hasty defense
Front width: 1 km (attacker), 1.6 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Great Britainattacker	13,000	358	—	16	Frontal attack; Repulse; Withdrew
USAdefender	11,000	362	—	14	Defensive plan

Attacker’s advantages none recorded

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 90 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.
Wikipedia contributors, Battle of Monmouth · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.