Talk:James Inglis Hamilton

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The great thing about wikipedia is our ability to write articles about otherwise obscure individuals who made a contribution to history. You made a great choice and this is a nice effort. Adding the military offices was an excellent idea. For a B-class article, I would like to see a little more content. (Others may disagree.) When I started writing articles, I wrote tersely. I later learned to provide as much material as possible. To beef up the article, you might want to add a couple of sentences of text (each) about the St. Malo and Belle Ile expeditions. It's OK if you haven't the slightest idea what Hamilton was up to during those events; he was there, so give the background. Also, I believe you could reasonably give much more detail about Freeman's Farm - 2 or 3 paragraphs at a minimum. This was a very important battle and Hamilton was slap in the middle of it as a major commander. Even if Burgoyne personally directed the brigade, the four regiments still reported to Hamilton. I'm sure you can find a lot of sources for that battle. Let me know if you decide to expand it and I will re-review it. Thanks. Djmaschek (talk) 04:57, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Sources and one question
To whom it may concern,

Every tritary source I've seen on Hamilton has included these sources. Some, if not most, are already in the article. Some are not though and they might be helpful to an editor.
 * British Army Lists
 * Anburey's Travels through the Interior Parts of America, 1st ed. vol. 1 p. 436
 * Anburey's Travels through the Interior Parts of America, 1st ed. vol. 2 p. 318, 502
 * Burgoyne's Orderly Book p. 22
 * Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 73 pt. 2 p. 791
 * Remembrancer vol. 13 p. 64
 * Burgoyne's State of the Expedition appendix 49
 * General Orders by Sir Guy Carleton and General Haldimand, 1776-1783 p. 7, 38, 55

ALSO, sources state Hamilton was in an "expedition to the West Indies" around the 1790s while commanding the 15th Regiment. Does anyone know what that is or if there is a Wikipedia article on it or something? Thanks. —Michael Jester (talk) 05:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Younger
As he was neither born heir nor died as heir, I think we should drop "younger" here. Have I overlooked anything? --Stfg (talk) 20:55, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * After rereading the article on the title, you're right. I was misreading it. —Michael Jester (talk) 04:54, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Hadden et al
The ISBN provided doesn't work. --Stfg (talk) 20:55, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I have removed the ISBN. —Michael Jester (talk) 01:48, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Padded section
The section covering the Seven Years' War summarises the battles nicely but doesn't say much about Hamilton except that he took part. The second paragraph has this problem especially. Best would be if some sources can give more information. Otherwise, I think the section needs shortening. --Stfg (talk) 21:58, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


 * How would I go about doing this? If there are no sources on what he did there specifically, do I just say he was there a leave it as that? —Michael Jester (talk) 14:02, 21 October 2011 (UTC)


 * That would be my view, yes. It might be worth asking the opinion of someone more expert in writing on history, e.g. one of the MilHist people. --Stfg (talk) 15:11, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Arising from the Peer Review

 * It's Lanarkshire, not Lancashire :-) But I don't think ref 19 is really saying he was regarded as one of the most influential freeholders there during the American War of Independence. He hadn't yet come into the freehold then, and Americans would probably not have taken much interest in his influence in Lanarkshire. So I've moved that statement to the "Later life" section.
 * As I understand it, Inglis became part of a (double barreled) family name in 1719. So I don't think its inclusion in the title is only for disambiguation. Rather, I wonder if other articles on members of this family, like James Hamilton (British Army officer, born 1777), wouldn't be better off with the Inglis included in the title(?) I'm going to pop something on User talk:HJ Mitchell to ask his view about this. --Stfg (talk) 09:06, 21 October 2011 (UTC)