Top Articles of May 2017
byLast call for Fort Plain Museum’s 2017 American Revolution Conference! The sign-up deadline has been extended to Tuesday, June 6. It was a busy…
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Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth
byBook review: Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth by Holger Hoock (Crown, 2017) [BUY NOW ON AMAZON] Wars take an awful human toll, no…
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We Have Sacrificed Our All
by“We Have Sacrificed Our All.” Thus, stated eleven loyalist officers from Ninety-Six and Camden Districts of South Carolina in a petition intended for the…
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The South Carolina backcountry in mid 1780
byIts occupation by the British, the character of its inhabitants, and its flora, fauna and terrain Overall, I am of opinion that militarily the…
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Benjamin Franklin: “Our Salvation depends on you”
byBenjamin Franklin was appointed an American Commissioner to France on September 26, 1776. [1] One month later he set sail for France where he…
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The Setauket Raid – December 1777
byOn the 1st of December 1777 Colonel Samuel B. Webb noted in his journal,[1] … At Horseneck [Greenwich, CT]. This day my Regiment marched…
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Contributor Close-up: Jeff Dacus
byAbout Jeff Dacus Jeff Dacus is a retired U.S. Marine. He presently lives in Vancouver, Washington where he teaches middle school U.S. History. He’s…
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The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Plundering of Johnson Hall
byThe newly formed 3rd New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Col. Elias Dayton, was mustered into the Continental Army on May 2, 1776. It was…
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“The Man Unmasked”: Henry Laurens, Egerton Leigh, and the Making of a Revolutionary
byHenry Laurens, one of colonial South Carolina’s wealthiest and most politically powerful planter-merchants, was a conservative by nature.[1] When the imperial crisis began to…
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Unappreciated Allies: Choctaws, Creeks, and the Defense of British West Florida, 1781
byTwo months after Spain entered the American Revolutionary War on June 21, 1779, the governor of Spanish Louisiana, Don Bernardo de Galvez, launched an…
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Thomas Jefferson — Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America
byBook review: Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America by Kevin R. C. Gutzman (St. Martin’s Press, 2017) [BUY NOW ON AMAZON] Few of…
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The “Battle at McIntire’s Farm”: Joseph Graham as Historian of the Revolution
byOn September 25, 1780 as Lord Cornwallis entered North Carolina he was harassed by “a few light troops” commanded by Col. William R. Davie[1]…
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How many troops did Cornwallis actually bring to the Battle of Guilford?
byA re-evaluation in the light of The Cornwallis Papers Works about the Revolutionary War are littered with references to troop numbers, whether to…
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The American Gunners at Yorktown
byThe Siege of Yorktown began subsequent to the movement of about fifty thousand American and French soldiers and sailors to eastern Virginia, twenty-eight thousand…
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Understanding Thomas Jefferson’s Reactions to the Rise of the Jacobins
byUpon the announcement of the convening of the Estates-General in 1789, Thomas Jefferson, then the Minister to France, wrote to James Madison with optimism…
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Contributor Close-up: Gary G. Shattuck
byAbout Gary G. Shattuck Gary Shattuck served over three decades in the Vermont law enforcement community as a supervising officer with the Vermont State…
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The Complex Character of John Paul Jones and his Polite Home Invasion
byTo British aristocracy, John Paul Jones was a thieving rebel and a Scotch-borne traitor to the Empire. To seacoast citizens of the British Isles,…
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The Murder of Colonel Dooly Of Georgia: A Revolutionary War Mystery
byGeorgia historian Otis Ashmore wrote that “of the many heroic men who illustrated that stormy period of the Revolution in Georgia that ‘tried men’s…
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Hearts of Oak on Canvas: Watson and the Shark
byA single day of gory trauma defined the life of Brook Watson. As a teenager, he had gone swimming in Havana harbor, where a…
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New Novel Depicts Real American Revolution Life
bySpies and Deserters is an exciting new novel by Martin R. Ganzglass that depicts real life experiences during the Revolutionary War. It follows eighteen-year-old…