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8 Fast Facts About Hessians
By the start of the American Revolution, the British military was spread thinly across their global empire. Despite having tens of thousands of troops…
The American Revolution Comes to Albany, New York, 1756-1776
“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment…
Easton’s Missing Dead
When it comes to Pennsylvania military hospitals during the Revolution apart from Philadelphia, Bethlehem has received a great deal of (appropriate) attention by scholars…
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Washington’s Second Christmas Day Attack
From the intelligence provided by his New York and New Jersey spies, General Washington believed, early in 1777, that General Howe would eventually strike…
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Top 10 Articles of February 2015
There is never a dull month at Journal of the American Revolution. In February, we continued to experience impressive reader traffic and welcomed three…
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Top 10 Revolutionary War Newspapers
Historians have long praised newspapers for the role they played during the American Revolution, but they don’t always zero in on specific papers that…
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The American Crisis Before Crossing the Delaware?
Does saying so make it so? Perhaps, if said convincingly and repeatedly. But sometimes it’s fair to ask: Who says so? And how do…
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Reaction to the 1775 Gunpowder Episode by the Independent Company of Albemarle County
The Royal Governor’s April 21, 1775 removal from Williamsburg’s Powder Magazine of gunpowder essential to Virginia’s defense caused an immediate furor among Virginians as…
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How was the Revolutionary War paid for?
It’s one thing to make speeches about declaring independence, or to assemble militias and discuss battle tactics against the enemy. It’s quite another thing…
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James Madison and the Making of America
Book Review: James Madison and the Making of America by Kevin R. C. Gutzman (St. Martin’s Press, 2012) In James Madison and the Making…
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Fortifying Philadelphia: A Chain of Redoubts and Floating Bridges
On August 25, 1777 General William Howe with 17,000 men landed at Head of Elk, Maryland; he was 57 miles south of the city…
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George Rogers Clark at Vincennes: “You May Expect No Mercy”
From the outset, it was a military operation whose strategic goals were combined with a fierce quest for vengeance. On January 3, 1778, Lieutenant…
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Why Did George Washington Become a Revolutionary?
In 1758, just before returning home from the French and Indian War, George Washington ran for a seat in Virginia’s House of Burgesses. Given…
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