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Conflict & War

Retribution in Pennsylvania: The 1780 British Counter-Offensive to the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign

by Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick

“The Expedition of Genl Sullivan against the six nations seems by its effects to have exasperated than to have terrified or disabled them,” wrote...

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October 1, 2025

This Week on Dispatches: G. Patrick O’Brien on the Cessation of Hostilities on the New York Frontier in 1783

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and JAR Contributor G. Patrick O'Brien on how the news of the end of the...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

September 29, 2025

Shootout at the House in the Horseshoe

by John Hanc

About an hour’s drive west from Raleigh, in North Carolina’s Moore County, the traffic thins out, the roads narrow, and the suburban sprawl of...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

September 24, 2025

Alexander Thompson and Declaring Peace in the Borderlands of Western New York, 1783

by G. Patrick O'Brien

On April 17, 1783, a dispatch arrived at Fort Rensselaer along the western bank of the Mohawk River, around two miles northwest of modern...

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War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783)

September 23, 2025

1778 Naval Strategy: French Actors and British Reactors

by Bob Ruppert

On February 6, 1778, the American colonies signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance with the country of France....

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