Top 10 Articles of September 2014
byJournal of the American Revolution is having a productive sophomore year on all fronts. Since launching in January 2013, we have published nearly 450…
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Victory for the Georgia Refugees
bySmallpox raged across the backcountry in the late spring of 1781 and both of the Refugee commanders, Elijah Clarke and James McCall, caught the…
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The Great West Point Chain
byControl of the Hudson River was important strategically during the American Revolution. The river, along with lakes George and Champlain, was a potential invasion…
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Button Gwinnett and Lachlan McIntosh Duel
byBorn in England in 1735, Button Gwinnett immigrated to Georgia in 1762 just before the Stamp Act Crisis brought political upheaval to the colonies.[1]…
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The Currency Act: A Problem and a Solution
byDuring the first half of the eighteenth century, there was a limited amount of specie or “hard money” in the American Colonies. There were…
The Georgia Refugees Turn the Tide against the British
byBusy with the Siege of Augusta and subsequent exodus from Georgia, Elijah Clarke and most of the Refugees missed the battle of King’s Mountain….
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The Rise of Virginia’s Independent Militia
byLike thousands of colonists in British North America, Virginians were alarmed in the summer of 1774 by news of Parliament’s harsh reaction to the…
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Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence
byBook Review: Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence by Ken Miller (Cornell University Press, 2014; order on Amazon)…
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How George Washington saved the life of Abraham Van Buskirk’s Son
byAbraham Van Buskirk was Bergen County’s leading Loyalist at the onset of the American Revolution. A prominent “Practitioner of Physic” with an income of…
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Elijah Clarke and the Georgia Refugees Fight British Domination
byWith the fall of Charleston, British columns spread into the southern backcountry. All of Georgia was occupied and the state government simply melted into…
Two Revolutionary Titles by Cornell University Press
byJournal of the American Revolution welcomes Cornell University Press as its newest advertiser, promoting two new Revolutionary War titles: For Fear of an Elective…
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Elizabeth Burgin Helps the Prisoners… Somehow
byI was recently asked to speak about Elizabeth Burgin, an American woman who risked her life helping prisoners of war during the American Revolution….
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The Unsuccessful American Attempt on Verplanck Point, July 16-19, 1779
byIn the early morning hours of July 16, 1779, Brigadier General Anthony Wayne and the Continental Corps of Light Infantry successfully stormed and carried…
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Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence
byBook Review: Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence by Jack Kelly. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. Hardback. $27.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-27877-7; 368…
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The Statue of George III
byOn the southern tip of Manhattan Island is a small oval area called Bowling Green. On this site on March 21, 1770 a statue,…
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The First Continental Congress Responds to the Intolerable Acts
byThe summer of 1774 was eventful for the colonists of British North America. News of Parliament’s harsh measures against Massachusetts, and particularly Boston, for…
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So Heavy a Trial: The Burning of New York’s First Capital
by“We are hellishly frightened,” Gouverneur Morris wrote to a friend on October 8, 1777.[1] Morris was attending to the business of the New York…
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General Washington and the Body-Snatchers
byAmong the many challenges Gen. George Washington faced in his first year as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, he probably didn’t expect to deal…
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Who Really “Crossed the T” in the Battle of the Saintes?
byWhen de Grasse’s fleet left Yorktown for the Caribbean on November 4, 1781, he was already planning how to pursue the second objective of…