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GARY ECELBARGER, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Gary Ecelbarger. Gary Ecelbarger has written seven books, co-written three others and is also the author of two dozen essays, journal and magazine articles about past events and personalities in American history. He claims ten direct-line ancestors who served as Patriot soldiers in the American Revolution. Born and raised in Western NY,ten
WHO SAID, "DON'T FIRE TILL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes!” is one of the most famous quotations to come out of the Revolutionary War.According to hallowed American tradition, the provincial commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill bellowed those words to his soldiers, warning them to preserve their gunpowder until their muskets could do the most damage to the British regulars.HANS BOYER ARCHIVES
Hans Boyer. Welcome! Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian LARRY KIDDER, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Larry Kidder. William L. (Larry) Kidder taught high school history for forty years and has been a volunteer interpreter and historian for Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell, New Jersey for thirty years. He is a member of the Washington Crossing American Revolutionary War Round Table, the Association for Living History, Farm, and ROBERT N. FANELLI, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN Robert N. Fanelli. Robert N. Fanelli is a founding member of the Washington Crossing Revolutionary War Round Table. He serves as a Trustee of the Swan Historical Foundation, which owns the excellent collection of revolutionary war artifacts on display in the museum of the Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, New Jersey. A FAST SHIP FROM SALEM: CARRYING NEWS OF WAR A Fast Ship from Salem: Carrying News of War. by Bob Ruppert. On April 24, General Gage sent his account of the confrontations at Lexington and Concord aboard the 200-ton, cargo-ladened Sukey to Lord Barrington, the Secretary of War and to the ABRAHAM VAN BUSKIRK ARCHIVES Abraham Van Buskirk. Welcome! Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel,Discovery Channel
RICHARD GRIDLEY: A NEARLY FORGOTTEN PATRIOT Gridley was key to the success of the patriots’ first real tests at Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. Gridley was born in colonial Boston on 3 January 1710, the son of Richard and Rebecca Gridley. He was the youngest of twelve children. He was apprenticed to a JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: HISTORY, CULTUREPEOPLEPOLITICSCULTUREECONOMICSCONFLICT & WARCRITICAL THINKING Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. ARCHIVES - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Maj. Gen. John Sullivan and the Occupation of Easton, Pennsylvania, May 7–June 18, 1779 by Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick. The Redcoat in America: The Diaries of Lieutenant William Bamford, 1757–1765 and 1776 by Don N. Hagist. The Death of Lt. Michael Grosh: the MarylandMilitia at
GARY ECELBARGER, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Gary Ecelbarger. Gary Ecelbarger has written seven books, co-written three others and is also the author of two dozen essays, journal and magazine articles about past events and personalities in American history. He claims ten direct-line ancestors who served as Patriot soldiers in the American Revolution. Born and raised in Western NY,ten
WHO SAID, "DON'T FIRE TILL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes!” is one of the most famous quotations to come out of the Revolutionary War.According to hallowed American tradition, the provincial commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill bellowed those words to his soldiers, warning them to preserve their gunpowder until their muskets could do the most damage to the British regulars.HANS BOYER ARCHIVES
Hans Boyer. Welcome! Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian LARRY KIDDER, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Larry Kidder. William L. (Larry) Kidder taught high school history for forty years and has been a volunteer interpreter and historian for Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell, New Jersey for thirty years. He is a member of the Washington Crossing American Revolutionary War Round Table, the Association for Living History, Farm, and ROBERT N. FANELLI, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN Robert N. Fanelli. Robert N. Fanelli is a founding member of the Washington Crossing Revolutionary War Round Table. He serves as a Trustee of the Swan Historical Foundation, which owns the excellent collection of revolutionary war artifacts on display in the museum of the Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, New Jersey. A FAST SHIP FROM SALEM: CARRYING NEWS OF WAR A Fast Ship from Salem: Carrying News of War. by Bob Ruppert. On April 24, General Gage sent his account of the confrontations at Lexington and Concord aboard the 200-ton, cargo-ladened Sukey to Lord Barrington, the Secretary of War and to the ABRAHAM VAN BUSKIRK ARCHIVES Abraham Van Buskirk. Welcome! Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel,Discovery Channel
RICHARD GRIDLEY: A NEARLY FORGOTTEN PATRIOT Gridley was key to the success of the patriots’ first real tests at Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. Gridley was born in colonial Boston on 3 January 1710, the son of Richard and Rebecca Gridley. He was the youngest of twelve children. He was apprenticed to a OBSERVATIONS ON SEVERAL ACTS OF PARLIAMENT Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. LOYALIST "BANDITTI" OF MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY: JACOB While brutal internecine warfare was waged in various sections of New Jersey, nowhere in the state were the effects both in length and degree felt as harshly than in the central coastal county of Monmouth. The guiding principle of the war here was lextalionis, that is, the law of retaliation, whereby a punishment resembled the offense committed in kind and degree (the biblical “an eye FRENCH ADVENTURERS, PATRIOTS, AND PRETENTIOUS IMPOSTERS IN The first French volunteers arrived randomly during 1775 and 1776, many from the French West Indies. These early arrivals were later described by the capable Chevalier Dubuysson des Hayes, an aide-de-camp to Lafayette, as “officers who are deeply in debt and discharged from their units in Europe.” CONTRIBUTOR CLOSE-UP: JETT CONNER Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. MINORCANS, NEW SMYRNA, AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN EAST Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. WHAT THEY SAW AND DID AT YORKTOWN'S REDOUBTS 9 AND 10 What They Saw and Did at Yorktown’s Redoubts 9 and 10. by Kim Burdick. "Storming a Redoubt at Yorktown" by Eugene-Louis Lami, 1840. (Library of Virginia) Receiving orders from Sir Henry Clinton, British commander in chief in North America, Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis led his troops to a position between Virginia’s York and James Rivers. GENERAL ISAAC GREGORY'S FICTITIOUS TREASON People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 18, 2020 February 17, 2020. General Isaac Gregory’s Fictitious Treason. by Michael Cecere. Col. Josiah Parker of Virginia was at a loss at what to do. He had just arrived outside the British outpost at Great Bridge in early March 1781 with 300 Virginia militia hoping to take the enemy garrison of120
THE BEST HISTORICAL FICTION ABOUT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Nichole Louise There are so many for me, but one that sticks out is America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie about Patsy Jefferson.. Roger Smith I have found President Jimmy Carter’s The Hornet’s Nest to be one of the finest efforts of historically-accurate historical fiction. Carter spends several pages in the front of the book identifying who the fictional characters BEFORE THE BAYONETTING: THE UNTOLD STORY OF CAPT. SAMUEL Capt. Samuel Whittemore, a seventy-eight year old American farmer, became a legend on April 19, 1775 when he was shot in the face by British soldiers, bayoneted at least six times, and clubbed in the head with the butts of their muskets. THE LAST VESTIGE OF THE CLOVE ROAD With Gen. John Burgoyne’s forces moving south from Canada, this maneuver would complete the British plan of achieving control of the critically important Hudson-Lake Champlain corridor. The other scenario was an attack on Philadelphia, the target Howe had JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: HISTORY, CULTUREPEOPLEPOLITICSCULTUREECONOMICSCONFLICT & WARCRITICAL THINKING Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. ARCHIVES - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Maj. Gen. John Sullivan and the Occupation of Easton, Pennsylvania, May 7–June 18, 1779 by Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick. The Redcoat in America: The Diaries of Lieutenant William Bamford, 1757–1765 and 1776 by Don N. Hagist. The Death of Lt. Michael Grosh: the MarylandMilitia at
WHO SAID, "DON'T FIRE TILL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes!” is one of the most famous quotations to come out of the Revolutionary War.According to hallowed American tradition, the provincial commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill bellowed those words to his soldiers, warning them to preserve their gunpowder until their muskets could do the most damage to the British regulars. SCOTT SYFERT, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Scott Syfert is a corporate attorney at Moore & Van Allen in Charlotte. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, the London School of Economics and the University of Virginia. He is also co-founder of the May 20th Society, a non-profit dedicated tocommemorating
LARRY KIDDER, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Larry Kidder. William L. (Larry) Kidder taught high school history for forty years and has been a volunteer interpreter and historian for Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell, New Jersey for thirty years. He is a member of the Washington Crossing American Revolutionary War Round Table, the Association for Living History, Farm, and ROBERT SCOTT DAVIS, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. ABRAHAM VAN BUSKIRK ARCHIVES Abraham Van Buskirk. Welcome! Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel,Discovery Channel
TERROR IN THE RAMAPOS It was the confessions of the aforementioned William Cole and another outlaw, William Welcher, that led to the Cowboys’ undoing. Sensing his end was near, the boastful Cole confessed to his crimes with the Cowboys, speculated as to who was responsible for the acts he was not involved with, and provided the names of Orange County residents known to harbor and aide the villains. THE MURDER OF COLONEL DOOLY OF GEORGIA: A REVOLUTIONARYDOOLY COUNTY COURTS DOOLY GEORGIADOOLY COUNTY GEORGIA JAILDOOLY COUNTY GA GENEALOGYDOOLY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT GADOOLY COUNTY SCHOOLS GADOOLYCOUNTY WEBSITE
Otis Ashmore, “Colonel John Dooly” in Allen D. Candler, ed., Men of Mark in Georgia, 12 vols. (Atlanta: A.B. Caldwell, 1907-1912), 1: 54. Hugh McCall, The History of Georgia, 2 vols. (Savannah: Williams, 1811, 1816), 2:85-86, 193-204, 306; E. Merton Coulter, “Nancy Hart, Georgia Heroine of the Revolution: The Story of the Growth of a Tradition,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 39 (June AMBUSHED! VICTIM’S BONES AT FORT LAURENS Ambushed! Victim’s Bones at Fort Laurens. by Hugh T. Harrington. For a few terrifying minutes the air was filled with the sound of gunshots, war-whoops and the screams of the dying. It was over quickly. Within plain sight of Fort Laurens, but beyond musket range, 19 members of a work party were ambushed and overwhelmed by Indiansand British.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: HISTORY, CULTUREPEOPLEPOLITICSCULTUREECONOMICSCONFLICT & WARCRITICAL THINKING Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. ARCHIVES - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Maj. Gen. John Sullivan and the Occupation of Easton, Pennsylvania, May 7–June 18, 1779 by Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick. The Redcoat in America: The Diaries of Lieutenant William Bamford, 1757–1765 and 1776 by Don N. Hagist. The Death of Lt. Michael Grosh: the MarylandMilitia at
WHO SAID, "DON'T FIRE TILL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes!” is one of the most famous quotations to come out of the Revolutionary War.According to hallowed American tradition, the provincial commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill bellowed those words to his soldiers, warning them to preserve their gunpowder until their muskets could do the most damage to the British regulars. SCOTT SYFERT, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Scott Syfert is a corporate attorney at Moore & Van Allen in Charlotte. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, the London School of Economics and the University of Virginia. He is also co-founder of the May 20th Society, a non-profit dedicated tocommemorating
LARRY KIDDER, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Larry Kidder. William L. (Larry) Kidder taught high school history for forty years and has been a volunteer interpreter and historian for Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell, New Jersey for thirty years. He is a member of the Washington Crossing American Revolutionary War Round Table, the Association for Living History, Farm, and ROBERT SCOTT DAVIS, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. ABRAHAM VAN BUSKIRK ARCHIVES Abraham Van Buskirk. Welcome! Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel,Discovery Channel
TERROR IN THE RAMAPOS It was the confessions of the aforementioned William Cole and another outlaw, William Welcher, that led to the Cowboys’ undoing. Sensing his end was near, the boastful Cole confessed to his crimes with the Cowboys, speculated as to who was responsible for the acts he was not involved with, and provided the names of Orange County residents known to harbor and aide the villains. THE MURDER OF COLONEL DOOLY OF GEORGIA: A REVOLUTIONARYDOOLY COUNTY COURTS DOOLY GEORGIADOOLY COUNTY GEORGIA JAILDOOLY COUNTY GA GENEALOGYDOOLY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT GADOOLY COUNTY SCHOOLS GADOOLYCOUNTY WEBSITE
Otis Ashmore, “Colonel John Dooly” in Allen D. Candler, ed., Men of Mark in Georgia, 12 vols. (Atlanta: A.B. Caldwell, 1907-1912), 1: 54. Hugh McCall, The History of Georgia, 2 vols. (Savannah: Williams, 1811, 1816), 2:85-86, 193-204, 306; E. Merton Coulter, “Nancy Hart, Georgia Heroine of the Revolution: The Story of the Growth of a Tradition,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 39 (June AMBUSHED! VICTIM’S BONES AT FORT LAURENS Ambushed! Victim’s Bones at Fort Laurens. by Hugh T. Harrington. For a few terrifying minutes the air was filled with the sound of gunshots, war-whoops and the screams of the dying. It was over quickly. Within plain sight of Fort Laurens, but beyond musket range, 19 members of a work party were ambushed and overwhelmed by Indiansand British.
ARCHIVES - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Maj. Gen. John Sullivan and the Occupation of Easton, Pennsylvania, May 7–June 18, 1779 by Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick. The Redcoat in America: The Diaries of Lieutenant William Bamford, 1757–1765 and 1776 by Don N. Hagist. The Death of Lt. Michael Grosh: the MarylandMilitia at
FRENCH ADVENTURERS, PATRIOTS, AND PRETENTIOUS IMPOSTERS IN The first French volunteers arrived randomly during 1775 and 1776, many from the French West Indies. These early arrivals were later described by the capable Chevalier Dubuysson des Hayes, an aide-de-camp to Lafayette, as “officers who are deeply in debt and discharged from their units in Europe.” CONTRIBUTOR CLOSE-UP: JETT CONNER 1 day ago · Journal of the American Revolution is the leading source of knowledge about the American Revolution and Founding Era. We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. REVIEW: VALLEY FORGE TO MONMOUTH Valley Forge to Monmouth: Six Transformational Months of the American Revolution by Jim Stempel (McFarland, 2021). Captivated by the short preface, it was evident this was just not another history addressing a brief period of conflict during the American Revolution, but an effort by the author to place the events of a formative six-month period (December 1777 to June 1778) of the young army of GEORGE WASHINGTON'S CULPER SPY RING: SEPARATING FACT FROM Interest in the Patriots’ intelligence network soared when the AMC television series Turn: Washington’s Spies aired for four seasons between 2014 and 2017.Unfortunately, it took great liberties with the facts. These included having the ring created in 1776 rather than two years later, depicting Setauket as a neighborhood of stately stone homes rather than wooden structures, having the FOLLOWING WILLIAM BARTRAM'S FOOTSTEPS IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA For more on John Bartram see Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, The Life and Travels of John Bartram: From Lake Ontario to the River St. John (Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1982). Helen Gere Cruickshank, John and William Bartram’s America: Selections from the Writings of the Philadelphia Naturalists (New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1957), 54. THIS WEEK ON DISPATCHES: MIKE MATHENY ON HOW PAPERWORK On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews graduate student and JAR contributor Mike Matheny about his fascinating research and article about how the record keeping of enlistments and other data was critical to the Continental Army’s success.. New episodes of Dispatches are available for free every Saturday evening (Eastern United States Time) on iTunes, Stitcher, Google BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award is an annual book prize to the adult non-fiction volume that best mirrors the mission of Journal of the American Revolution, which is to deliver passionate, creative, and clear content that makes American Revolution history come alive for a broad audience.Winning books commonly feature meticulous research and well-written narratives. PHILLIP R. GIFFIN, AUTHOR AT JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN Phillip R. Giffin. Phil Giffin grew up in Oregon and worked for 25 years in international marketing and 9 years teaching high school social studies. He has a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University,1965; Captaincy US Army Ordnance, 1966-68; and an MAT from George Fox University, 2001. He is a freelance writer with severalpublished
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1. Marilyn A Howe Woman Celebrates the Glory of the First of June,1794
Very interested in Howe article. Admiral Richard & General William had a nephew who settled in eastern Pennsylvania & fought with the colonists against the British.*
2. Bill Bleyer George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring: Separating Factfrom Fiction
As noted by Selden, Brewster was in fact an officer in the Continental Army. Beverly Tyler, Historian for the Three Village Historical Society, one of my main sources for the…*
3. Selden George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring: Separating Fact fromFiction
Sorry; my mistake. I have been working with earlier correspondence. Brewster was promoted later in the war (1780) to captain lieutenant in the Continental Army.*
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Caleb Brewster was named a lieutenant in John Lamb's 2d Continental Artillery in 1777. In the correspondence with Washington during the war, Brewster is always addressed or referred to by… THE LATEST IN THE JAR BOOK SERIESLATEST REVIEWS
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November 16, 2017 February 20, 2018 THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, SECOND YEAR: NOVEMBER 1773 – AUGUST 1774by Bob Ruppert
During the three months that the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was on holiday from August to November 1773, the…Read More
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August 25, 2016 February 20, 2018 WHAT DO BOND PRICES TELL US ABOUT THE EARLY REPUBLIC? by Richard Sambasivam America’s early finances were, in a word, messy. The states took on enormous debt to fund the Revolutionary War while the national government chartered…Read More
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March 23, 2016 February 20, 2018 A BRIEF HISTORY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S RESIDENCES ON CRAVEN STREET, LONDON: 1757 – 1775by David Turnquist
If one looked into Benjamin Franklin’s time on Craven Street, they might initially believe he lived at 36 Craven Street the entirety ofhis…
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December 1, 2015 August 14, 2016 HOW DO YOU DEFINE “FOUNDING FATHERS”?by Editors
How do you define “Founding Fathers”? You can define it either broadly or narrowly. By consensus, most historians limit the narrow definition to six….Read More
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November 30, 2015 August 14, 2016 WHICH SIDE BENEFITED THE MOST FROM THE NATIVE AMERICANS?by Editors
Which side do you think benefited the most from the Native American involvement in the war? Why? The British benefited the most, fromone…
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November 27, 2015 July 28, 2016 HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL by James Kirby Martin Review of the Broadway musical Hamilton, now playing at the Richard Rodgers Theater on 46th Street in New York City. Let me confess at…Read More
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November 18, 2015 July 28, 2016 9 QUESTIONS WITH RICK ATKINSONby Editors
Learning that one of the most acclaimed military writers of our time has turned his narrative expertise towards the American Revolution isexciting news…
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November 3, 2015 August 28, 2016 THE AMERICAN VICARS OF BRAYby Todd W. Braisted
Loyalists, those Americans who openly supported the British Government during the American Revolution, have been largely assumed to have had unchanging allegiance during the…Read More
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War Years (1775-1783) May 11, 2021 May 12, 2021 A CHOICE BODY OF MEN: THE CONTINENTAL ARMY ON THE UPPER OHIOby David P. Ervin
The settlers who chose to make their homes in the upper Ohio in the mid to late eighteenth century faced a wide variety of…Read More
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May 10, 2021 May 9, 2021 REVIEW: WAR AT SABER POINT: BANASTRE TARLETON AND THE BRITISH LEGIONby Todd W. Braisted
War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion by John Knight (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2020) The American Revolution produced numerous well-known…Read More
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May 6, 2021 May 7, 2021 A FATAL DISPUTE AMONG THE GUARDS by Robert N. Fanelli The British evacuation of Philadelphia had been under way for several days. Given the honor to be among the last units to leave, the…Read More
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