A Wartime Visit to the Enemy’s Capital
byImagine what it would be like to visit London during the waning days of the American Revolution, to hear about attitudes of British officers…
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George Washington’s Revenge
byBOOK REVIEW: George Washington’s Revenge: The 1777 New Jersey Campaign and How General Washington Turned Defeat into the Strategy that Won the Revolution by Arthur…
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The Big Runaway: Turning Point of the Susquehanna West Branch Settlers
byPennsylvania settlers of the Susquehanna West Branch Valley endured extreme hardship through the first years of the revolution. The men and supplies they provided…
This Week on Dispatches: Benjamin L. Carp on Capt. Abraham Van Dyck and Military Justice
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews distinguished historian, author, and JAR contributor Benjamin L. Carp on his discovery of two separate encounters between…
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The Highs and Lows of Ethan Allen’s Reputation as Reported by Revolutionary-Era Newspapers
byEthan Allen’s prevailing reputation among the general population remains that of a daring hero, but has suffered in the eyes of recent historians. Casual…
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Samuel Elbert and the Age of Revolution in Georgia, 1740-1788
byBOOK REVIEW: Samuel Elbert and the Age of Revolution in Georgia: 1740-1788 by Clay Outzts (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2022) Professor Clay Ouzts has…
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Grave Errors: Inaccurate Markers for the 8th Virginia Regiment Soldiers
byOf the roughly nine hundred men who served at some point in the 8th Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary War, only fifty-two have identified…
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Captain Luke Day: A Forgotten Leader of “Shays’s Rebellion”
byWhile Daniel Shays (1747-1825) has basked posthumously in the glory of leading the 1786-87 populist rebellion that bears his name, Luke Day (1743-1801) was…
Prisoners of the Bashaw
byBOOK REVIEW: Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803–1805 by Frederick C. Leiner (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2022) As the dust…
This Week on Dispatches: James M. Deitch on Johann Rall at the Battle of Trenton
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor James M. Deitch on whether Hessian commander Johann Rall’s failure at Trenton was due to…
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Two Encounters: Captain Abraham Van Dyck, the “Negro Man,” and Prince Pitkin
byCaptain Abraham Van Dyck of New York faced military justice twice during the Revolutionary War: first by the British for burning his hometown, and…
This Week on Dispatches: Norman S. Poser on The Many Lives of General John Burgoyne
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author Norman S. Poser on his new book, From the Battlefield to the Stage: The Many Lives…
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Johann Gottlieb Rall: Tactical Negligence or Personal Negligence at Trenton?
by“When a man chooses a calling, he must do everything that can be done in that calling so that he can never suffer reproach…
Revolutionary Roads
byBOOK REVIEW: Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent . . . and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly…
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The Lonely Vigil of America’s First Diplomat
byAfter the French and Indian War, or the Seven Years War as it was known in Europe, Spain and France began to plan for…