Contextualizing the claim that View of the Hebrews, The Late War Between The 'United States And Great Britain, and The First Book of Napoleon are related to the text of the Book of Mormon reveals many weaknesses.

There is no credible evidence that Joseph Smith read any of the books.

If Joseph Smith was aware of any of the books, how they might have influenced the coming forth of the Book of Mormon is not delineated.

Critics’ who who say these books somehow influenced the creation of the Book of Mormon would strengthen their case by providing a plausible theory how that process occurred.

The documented observable behaviors associated with translation do not support the involvement of an external text of any kind, aside from the gold plates.

As a 24 year old uneducated farm boy, Joseph’s academic qualifications were minimal when compared to the other authors.

The length of the three books is significantly less than the Book of Mormon, which is over three times longer than the longest of the three.

Asserting a relationship between the Book of Mormon text and these books without a plausible explanation of how they might have been associated with each other seems to be an almost desperate attempt to explain away the origin of the Book of Mormon.

Naturalists struggle to explain how Joseph Smith might have created the complex text that comprises the Book of Mormon.

Source	Education	Age at publication	Book	Year published	Pages	Words	Evidence Joseph Smith knew of publication
Ethan Smith	Graduated from Dartmouth in 1790	63	View of the Hebrews	1825	285	57,000	None
Gilbert J. Hunt	Co-published his first book in 1808	Under 44	The Late War Between The'United States And Great Britain	1819	246	83,000	None
Michael Linning	Graduate of Glasgow College 1793	35	The First Book of Napoleon	1809	146	22,500	None
Joseph Smith	One year frontier schooling	24	Book of Mormon	1830	588	268,163