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The Battle of St. Louis
While the War of American Independence was won on the Eastern seaboard by American and French battling the British, the future of the United…
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On His Majesty’s Secret Service
Edward Bancroft habitually worked late into the evenings on Tuesday. This evening he was finishing a letter to his new mistress and arranging a…
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Silas Deane: Forlorn and Forgotten Patriot
When the American colonists entered into a shooting war with the British Empire over their grievances, they were not prepared in many ways. They…
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The Gunpowder Shortage
As we know from our history books, the War for Independence began with the shots fired at Lexington and Concord. Those shots required gunpowder,…
The Committee of Secret Correspondence
As the struggle between Great Britain and her colonists in the thirteen North American colonies entered a state of armed resistance against British military…