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Richard J. Werther

Richard J. Werther

Richard J. Werther is a history enthusiast living in Novi, Michigan. He studied business management at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and is a CPA by trade (though now retired).

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Diplomacy, Engineering and Technology, Frontier, Postwar Conflict (>1783) January 5, 2023 January 30, 2023

The “Western Forts” of the 1783 Treaty of Paris

The Revolutionary War was formally ended by the Treaty of Paris in early 1783. Problems with compliance arose on both sides nearly immediately on…

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Frontier, Native Americans, People, Postwar Politics (>1783), The War Years (1775-1783) September 20, 2022 September 20, 2022

Marinus Willett: The Exploits of an Unheralded War Hero

Marinus Willett was born the son of a Quaker, Edward Willett, on July 31, 1740, in Jamaica, Long Island (now part of Queens). After…

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Crime and Justice, Frontier, Loyalists, Native Americans, The War Years (1775-1783) August 25, 2022 August 24, 2022

Walter Butler—The Dastardly Loyalist

During the American Revolution, some of the hardest-fought and most bitter battles occurred in the land of the Six Nations, the Iroquois lands stretching…

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Constitutional Debate, Frontier, Law, Politics During the War (1775-1783) June 14, 2022 June 13, 2022

The Articles of Confederation and Western Expansion

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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Autobiography and Biography, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) March 15, 2022 March 14, 2022

The Last Royal Governors of the American Colonies

The last level of British authority at the colony level was the colonial governors. They came in various forms, military and civil, appointed and…

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Economics, Law, People, Prewar Politics (<1775) January 13, 2022 January 10, 2022

Charles Townshend: Architect of the Townshend Duties

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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Medicine, The War Years (1775-1783) October 26, 2021 October 20, 2021

George Washington and the First Mandatory Immunization

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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Espionage and Cryptography, People, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) June 22, 2021 June 21, 2021

The Incredible Story of Hercules Mulligan

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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Diplomacy, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) March 1, 2021 March 3, 2021

King Gustav III of Sweden: Friendly Foe of the United States

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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Engineering and Technology, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) September 8, 2020 September 7, 2020

Volunteer Overload: Foreign Support of the American Cause Prior to the French Alliance

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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Diplomacy, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) June 23, 2020 June 20, 2020

Opposing the Franco-American Alliance: The Case of Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot

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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Espionage and Cryptography, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) April 9, 2020 April 8, 2020

Scouting the American Revolution: The French Intelligence Community

We often hear about intelligence activities which take place during times of war. Having good intelligence is indeed critical to military and diplomatic success….

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Diplomacy, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) September 12, 2019 September 11, 2019

A French “King of America”?

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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Critical Thinking, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Primary Sources, Religion August 6, 2019 August 4, 2019

Jacob Duché: Mixing Religion and Politics During the Revolution

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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Critical Thinking, People, Prewar Politics (<1775) May 16, 2019 May 19, 2019

Reconciliation between the Colonies and Great Britain—A Close Call

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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Diplomacy, Espionage and Cryptography, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 12, 2019 February 15, 2019

The “Hynson Business”—The Story of a Double Agent

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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Conflict & War, People, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) January 3, 2019 January 2, 2019

Captain Lambert Wickes and “Gunboat Diplomacy, American Revolution Style”

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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Conflict & War, People, The War Years (1775-1783) July 31, 2018 August 15, 2018

The Canadian Patriot Experience

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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Features May 9, 2018 May 8, 2018

The Strange Case of “Charles de Weissenstein”

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…

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Features, People March 12, 2018 March 11, 2018

Grace Galloway—Abandoned Loyalist Wife

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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Features, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) February 21, 2018 February 26, 2018

Patriots Turned Loyalist—The Experiences of Joseph Galloway and Isaac Low

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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Features October 24, 2017 October 22, 2017

Analyzing the Founders: A Closer Look at the Signers of Four Founding Documents

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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People September 28, 2017 September 3, 2017

Roger Sherman: The Only Man Who Signed All Four Founding Documents

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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People June 7, 2017 May 28, 2017

William Bingham: Forgotten Supplier of the American Revolution

William Bingham. Does the name sound familiar to you? Some of the readers of this journal will recognize it. For many others, including myself,…

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