Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778
BOOK REVIEW: Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778 by Norman E. Donoghue II. )Penn State University Press 2023) This carefully researched book…
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On the Road Again: En Train De Marcher—Frenchmen Travel Through Delaware
If you ask an outsider about the State of Delaware, they are likely to respond, “Dela-where?” “Do you mean Delaware County???” A few may…
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Cooch’s Bridge, Delaware’s Only Revolutionary War Battle
On December 5, 2018, the State of Delaware announced that it had acquired the historic property at Cooch’s Bridge, site of the only Revolutionary…
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L’Expédition Particuliere: Winter 1780 and the Battle of Cape Henry
In July 1780, after three and half months at sea, nearly 6,000 thousand men[1] and supplies crammed on four frigates, seven ships of the…
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L’Expédition Particulière crosses the Atlantic: The French Rally to the American Cause
Following American success at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, French King Louis XVI signed the Treaty of Amity and Friendship, establishing open French…
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What They Saw and Did at Yorktown’s Redoubts 9 and 10
Receiving orders from Sir Henry Clinton, British commander in chief in North America, Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis led his troops to a position between…
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America’s First Ally: France in the Revolutionary War
Norman Desmarais, professor emeritus at Providence College, is one of America’s most important scholars of French involvement in the American Revolution. Desmarais has long…
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Delaware’s Colonel John Haslet (1727–1777)
Born in Straw Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland,[1] thirty-year-old John Haslet was the young, widowed minister of Ballykelly Presbyterian Church. Arriving in America in 1757, he…
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Rolling on the River: Delaware in the American Revolution
Under English rule, trading vessels sailed back and forth from the Delaware River and Bay to Philadelphia, New York, the British Isles, Southern Europe,…
A Look at Lauzun in L’Expédition Particulière
Best known in this country for his role in the in the Yorktown Campaign of the American Revolution, the Duc de Lauzun (April 13,…
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Fever
Throughout the American Revolution, opposing armies fought a common enemy. Primary documents on both sides are full of complaints, descriptions and responses to the…
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A Quaker Struggles With the War
A Quaker miller named Daniel Byrnes (1730-1797) began appearing in New Castle County, Delaware land records in 1760, buying and selling land bordering the…
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Lafayette’s Second Voyage to America: Lafayette and l’Hermione
In 1775, Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette was an eighteen-year-old French soldier assigned to military maneuvers at Metz. At Metz, he attended an official…
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Allen McLane: Case Study in History and Folklore
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories…