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Mark R. Anderson

Mark R. Anderson

Mark R. Anderson is an independent historian and retired U.S. Air Force officer. He earned his B.A. in history from Purdue University and his M.A. in military studies from American Military University. He is the author of The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776; The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776: As Told through Jean-Baptiste Badeaux’s Three Rivers Journal and New York Captain William Goforth's Letters; and contributed an essay to The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution.

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War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) January 12, 2023 January 11, 2023

By Stratagem and Hard Fighting: The Improbable Capture of Eleven British Ships

On the third day of November 1775, Brig. Gen. Richard Montgomery and his Continental army triumphantly concluded a taxing two-month siege with the surrender…

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Autobiography and Biography, Frontier, People, The War Years (1775-1783) May 10, 2022 May 9, 2022

William Goforth: A Life of Patriotism, Courage, and Honor

William Goforth played significant roles in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio in the age of the American Revolution and the Early Republic and he…

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Arts & Literature, Critical Thinking, Politics During the War (1775-1783) March 3, 2022 March 9, 2022

King George III’s Montreal Bust in a Pattern of Iconoclasm

Throughout history, changes in political order have often been accompanied by the destruction of the old regime’s images and monuments. The July 9, 1776…

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Diplomacy, Native Americans, Patriots, The War Years (1775-1783) May 27, 2021 May 24, 2021

Wampum Belts to Canada: Stockbridge Indian Ambassadors’ Dangerous 1775 Peace Mission

In early May 1775, with the Revolutionary War not even one month old, western Massachusetts Patriot leaders and their Stockbridge Indian neighbors developed a plan…

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Critical Thinking, People, The War Years (1775-1783) May 13, 2021 May 10, 2021

David Wooster Kept the Men at Quebec: Giving Credit to a Much-Maligned General

Most modern historical treatments of the American invasion of Canada disparage Brig. Gen. David Wooster for his leadership in Canada. A detailed examination of…

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People, Prisoners of War, The War Years (1775-1783) February 24, 2021 February 23, 2021

Incredible Insults and Hardships: The Hostage Experience of Ebenezer Sullivan

When twenty-three-year-old Capt. Ebenezer Sullivan nobly volunteered himself as a prisoner-exchange hostage in the last weeks of the Canadian invasion, he had no way…

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Critical Thinking, Memoir, People, The War Years (1775-1783) December 31, 2020 January 4, 2021

Ethan Allen’s “Motley Parcel of Soldiery” at Montreal

When Ethan Allen described his defeat and capture outside Montreal at Longue Pointe on September 25, 1775, he observed that “it was a motley…

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Critical Thinking, People, The War Years (1775-1783) October 15, 2020 October 16, 2020

Ethan Allen’s Mysterious Defeat at Montreal—Reconsidered

On September 25, 1775, three weeks into the American invasion of Canada, the legendary Ethan Allen fought a fierce battle outside Montreal with about…

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