Author: David Kindy

David Kindy is lifelong lover of history. He has read, studied, researched, and written about a wide range of historical topics, including the American Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Pilgrims. Currently, he is writing a book about an event that happened in Plymouth, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. He is a former vice president of the Pilgrim Society, which operates Pilgrim Hall Museum, the oldest continuously operating public museum in the country. He lives a stone’s throw from Plymouth Rock in, of course, Plymouth with his wife Elynor and black Lab Harry.

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Small Boats and Daring Men: Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy

Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy by Benjamin Armstrong (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019) In the seventy-foot sloop of war Providence, John Paul Jones began his illustrious military career in 1776 with a series of littoral raids in Canadian waters. The bold commander, sailing with a contingent […]

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