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The Articles of Confederation described the first government of the new United States. As one may imagine from understanding the later debates on the…
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The last level of British authority at the colony level was the colonial governors. They came in various forms, military and civil, appointed and…
The increasingly turbulent years preceding the American Revolution were fueled by an exchange of laws promulgated by Great Britain to maintain political and economic…
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The debate over mandatory vaccination for Covid-19 has led to many articles referring to how George Washington handled a similar issue, this one involving…
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When you are a spy, you want to go unnoticed. With a colorful name like Hercules Mulligan, that can sometimes be difficult, especially if…
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New York City, November 16, 1783. It was finally here, Evacuation Day. The British, who had occupied Manhattan for seven long years, were finally…
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Aside from being outmanned by the best army in the world when the American Revolution started, it was clear that the American forces were…
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The participation of the French on the side of the newly declared independent American colonies is widely acknowledged as the factor that tipped the…
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We often hear about intelligence activities which take place during times of war. Having good intelligence is indeed critical to military and diplomatic success….
In the chaos of war, there are, and have always been, schemers who will try to take advantage of disorder to enrich themselves, either…
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In a country in which one of the main constitutional principles is separation of church and state, it is counter-intuitive to find that there…
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There were many attempts, before and during the American Revolution, to avoid armed conflict via negotiation, or to stop the war after it began….
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Wars have a way of creating strange alliances, and the American Revolution was no exception. I encountered one such unusual relationship while researching my…
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The Continental Navy. Words that didn’t exactly strike fear into the heart of the mighty British Royal Navy. For most Americans, knowledge of the…
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The American Revolution was in effect a civil war. It included all the heightened acrimony associated with one. In what became the United States,…
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Early one morning in late June 1778, an unknown passerby tossed a package of documents that clanged against the gate at Benjamin Franklin’s home…
Grace Galloway was living in a world of woe. The pressure had been building, and a little after 10 p.m. on August 20, 1778,…
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In the American Revolution, as with most other wars, the winners write the history. As such, we have the term “loyalist” for those colonists…
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Writing about Roger Sherman, the only man to sign our four most important founding documents – the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the…
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Thomas Jefferson stood outside the halls of congress late one afternoon. And with the hand that penned the Declaration of Independence, he pointed across…
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William Bingham. Does the name sound familiar to you? Some of the readers of this journal will recognize it. For many others, including myself,…