Conor Robison is a published historian and creative writer, with extensive earaches from dragging his mother around battlefields and being on the receiving end of her scathing remarks concerning the nature of men and battles. When not battlefield hopping, he is a historical curriculum writer, substitute teacher, and swim instructor. If ever the stress undergone by George Washington can be known to a civilian, he asserts, it must surely be shared by one who has taught children how to swim.
Captain Johann Ewald had much to thank the Almighty for.[1] A heroic stand on the picket line before Norfolk, Virginia, parried an American thrust and covered the captain and his men with glory, but it had nearly cost him his leg and left him bed bound and bereft of the command of his beloved Jӓgers. […]
Ensign Ebenezer Denny calculated that he went from a green officer to a combat veteran in all of four minutes. Yet in those harsh two hundred and forty seconds he felt like anything but a leader of men in battle. Adrenaline alone was no match against hard marching amidst the brutal Virginia heat with a […]
