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Henry Knox’s “Noble Train of Artillery:” No Ox for Knox
The best-known scene of Col. Henry Knox’s train of artillery in the winter of 1775-1776 is Tom Lovell’s painting The Noble Train of Artillery….
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Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero
Book Review: Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero by Christian Di Spigna (Crown Publishing: 2018)….
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Who Shot First? The Americans!
At dawn on April 19, 1775, the British detachment of light infantry under Maj. Pitcairn reached Lexington, about two-thirds the way to Concord. There…
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Dissecting the Timeline of Paul Revere’s Ride
I’m a scientist by training. I received my master’s degree from MIT, which is incidentally where I fell in love with Boston’s revolutionary history….
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Dr. Joseph Warren’s Informant
With April 19 nearing, marking the anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War (the official regional holiday of Patriot’s Day in New…
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The First Naval Skirmish of the Revolution
In mid May 1775, just weeks after the bloody Battle of April Nineteenth had sparked the start of the American Revolution, the perhaps first…