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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,…