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December 30, 2025

Lt. Elijah Evans of Maryland: Unresolved Promotion in an Extra Continental Regiment

by Tucker F. Hentz

On Christmas day 1780, seven days before his discharge from the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment (Rawlings’ regiment), Lt. Elijah Evans recorded in a...

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Lt. Elijah Evans of Maryland: Unresolved Promotion in an Extra Continental Regiment

Lt. Elijah Evans of Maryland: Unresolved Promotion in an Extra Continental Regiment

A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship

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