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“We Will Cross at Ely’s Ford Today”: Is the Yorktown Campaign Historical Marker at the Right Location?

by John R. Maass

In the months prior to the Revolutionary War’s culminating siege at Yorktown and Gloucester Point, Virginia in 1781, the embattled Old Dominion was the...

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September 17, 2025

This Week on Dispatches: Patrick H. Hannum on Col. William Woodford’s James River Crossing in 1775

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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR Contributor Patrick H. Hannum about a little known, but important river crossing during the 1775...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

September 16, 2025

General John Twiggs and the American Revolution

by Robert Scott Davis

Georgia’s legendary John Twiggs had a distinguished public career during and after the American Revolution, but he left almost no other information about himself,...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

September 11, 2025

Francisco de Saavedra de Sangronis: A Spainard’s Pivotal Role in the Yorktown Triumph

by Richard J. Werther

Nowhere in the struggle that was the American Revolution was outside assistance more significant than at the siege of Yorktown during the autumn of...

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September 10, 2025

This Week on Dispatches: Richard Gardiner on George Washington’s First Teacher

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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR Contributor Richard Gardiner. For the last two centuries historians have speculated as to the identity...

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