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Black Soldiers of Liberty
Estimates have appeared in print for generations that 3,000 to 5,000 Black soldiers served in the American military in the Revolution. These claims seldom…
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Black Haitian Soldiers at the Siege of Savannah
The story of the Black Haitian soldiers serving in the French army in the battles to wrest Savannah, Georgia, from the British in September–October…
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Comte d’Estaing’s Georgia Land Grants
On the morning of October 9, 1779, one of the bloodiest and most forgotten battles of the American Revolution took place during the Siege…
Women of Revolutionary War Georgia
The September 3, 2020 issue of the Journal of the American Revolution published “Margaret Eustace and Her Family Pass Through the American Revolution.” Margaret Eustace, the…
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Margaret Eustace and Her Family Pass through the American Revolution
John L. Smith, Jr. introduced readers of the Journal of the American Revolution to Margaret Eustace in his article, “The Scandalous Divorce Case that Influenced…
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The Dark and Heroic Histories of Georgia’s Signers
Revolutions are complex multi-sided economic, political, social, and technological events. They begin as conservative movements. As each side fears losing, all of these different…
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Ebenezer Smith Platt: An American In Newgate Prison In 1777
In the early summer of 1775, South Carolinia patriots outfitted the schooner Liberty (formally the Elizabeth) as what historian Charles C. Jones called as…
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The Murder of Colonel Dooly Of Georgia: A Revolutionary War Mystery
Georgia historian Otis Ashmore wrote that “of the many heroic men who illustrated that stormy period of the Revolution in Georgia that ‘tried men’s…
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Crossing the Great Divide: The Battle at Van Creek, Georgia, February 11, 1779
Due to the work done by many people since 1976 in uncovering the lost history of the American Revolution, for the first time in…
The Mystery Book and the Forgotten Founding Father
One of the great literary mysteries of colonial American history is the identity of “An American,” the anonymous author of American Husbandry (London, 1775)….
Austin Dabney: Georgia’s African American Hero of the Revolution
George Rockingham Gilmer wrote a heroic saga of the life, service, and sacrifices of Austin Dabney, an African American Georgia Revolutionary War hero. He…
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Portraits of Southern Partisans: Likenesses of Thomas Brown and Elijah Clarke
The battles of and between English born merchant Loyalist partisan Thomas Brown and illiterate native North Carolina American guerilla Elijah Clarke lacks for nothing,…