Top 10 Articles of October 2014
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The Incredibly Convoluted History of Westmoreland County, Connecticut
byIn 1662, Charles II, the restored monarch of Great Britain, issued a charter for the founding of Connecticut. The colony’s borders were delineated as…
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Three Brave British Army Wives
bySome time ago we saw the story of Mrs. Middleton, the wife of a British soldier, who took several Americans prisoner at the battle…
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Richard Pearis and the Mobilization of South Carolina’s Backcountry Loyalists
byWhen British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton began operations against Charleston in March 1780, he decided not to call upon the Loyalists in the…
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10 Remarkable Runaway Ads
byA frequent discovery when reading 18th Century newspapers is the runaway ads. In an era when people could be owned by or contractually bound…
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Why Did a Boston Mob Kill a French Officer?
bySome twelve years ago, as I was walking along Boston’s Freedom Trail with my family, I noticed an obelisk and monument in the front…
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The Battle of Millstone
byThe Battle of Millstone in central New Jersey on 20 January 1777,[1] is a “local interest” battle, the kind that is often known only…
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The Battle of Golden Hill – Six Weeks Before the Boston Massacre
byOn June 4, 1766, the New York Sons of Liberty gathered in a field, later known as the Commons, to celebrate the birthday of…
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The New Nation: The Creation of the United States in Paintings and Eyewitness Accounts
byBook Review: The New Nation: The Creation of the United States in Paintings and Eyewitness Accounts The art of Mort Künstler, text by Edward…
The Partisan and the Queen’s Ranger
byOn November 6, 1779, Virginia major Henry Lee, commander of the Continental Army’s 2nd Partisan Corps, addressed a letter to British lieutenant colonel John…
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Allen McLane: Case Study in History and Folklore
byThe best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories…
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Billy Flora at the Battle of Great Bridge
byBilly Flora was cold. That was not surprising. He was crouched in the lee of a pile of shingles next to a burnt out…
The Three Documents that brought France into the War
byIn the spring of 1775, Arthur Lee, the American agent in London, attended a dinner party at the home of John Wilkes, an outspoken…
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Anthony Wayne’s 1782 Savannah Campaign
byIn the minds of many people the surrender at Yorktown in the fall of 1781 brought the Revolutionary War to a close. However, the…
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Fanning Outfoxes Marion
byWhen news of Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown on October 19, 1781 arrived in southeastern North Carolina well into November, the war there did…
Three Dates, One Action? The Demarests at New Bridge, 1781
byOne of the finest sources for anecdotal, first-hand accounts of the Revolution is the U.S. Pension & Bounty Land Applications in the National Archives….
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The Return of George Washington 1783-1789
byBook Review: The Return of George Washington 1783-1789 by Edward J. Larson. New York: William Morrow, 2014. Hardcover $29.99. ISBN 978-0-06-224867-1. Pp 384. Index,…
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The Myth of “Granny Gates”
byEarlier this year the AMC network aired a new series, Turn, about the Continental Army’s Culper Spy Ring, based on Alexander Rose’s book, Washington’s…
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Bartholomew von Heer and the Marechaussee Corps
byWashington and the Continental Army spent the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, twenty-five miles northwest of Philadelphia. On November 27, the Continental Congress…