Dr. Alexander S. Burns is an assistant professor of history at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Dr. Burns studies North America and military Europe in the eighteenth century. Recently, he edited a Festschrift in honor of the late Christopher Duffy, The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare: Essays in Honour of Christopher Duffy (Helion Press, 2022); and has authored Infantry in Battle 1733-1783 (Helion Press, 2025).

Andrew pursued his interests in military history as a postgraduate at the University of Leeds after completing his undergraduate degree at the University of York. He obtained his PhD, with a thesis entitled “The British Army on Campaign 1808-1815: Manpower, Cohesion, and Effectiveness”, which was later published by the University of Oklahoma Press as Sickness, Suffering and the Sword. Andrew subsequently produced a number of books on Napoleonic topics, before being invited in 2015 to set up and run the From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 book series for Helion and Company. This enabled him to pursue his interests in eighteenth-century topics including the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Army’s European campaigns of the 1740s and 1750s. He also worked for a time in the military museum sector and is now a freelance historian and editor; as a sideline, he is also a scenario designer for the Wargames Design Studio, working on horse-and-musket era titles.