Steven M. Baule is the author of ten books including Protecting the Empire's Frontier: Officers of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot during its North American Service, 1767-1776. His primary research focuses on the British military presence in the Midwest before and during the American Revolution. He was originally a history teacher and currently serves as the superintendent of the North Boone School District in Illinois. Baule holds doctorates from Loyola University of Chicago and Northern Illinois University. He is a regular contributor to both historical and educational journals. He is a veteran of the US Army infantry. He is currently on the Board of Governors for the Company of Military Historians.
The Revolutionary War in the Ohio and Upper Mississippi River Valleys is generally looked upon as a side show to the main conflict along the Atlantic Seaboard. However, the impact of the forces in the Old Northwest Territory was much greater than their small size could have anticipated. Historian Pauline Peyton posited that had the […]
As the American Bicentennial approached, the Smithsonian Magazine in April 1973 ran a story by Richard W. O’Donnell about Paul Revere not being the only messenger who rode to warn Massachusetts colonists on the night of April 18, 1775, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” outlined. Revere did not complete his ride and when […]
As the British surveyed the fortifications being built upon Breed’s Hill across the harbor from Boston proper, beside the farmers, shop keepers, tradesmen and aspiring soldiers, one must wonder if their focus stopped when they saw what must have appeared to them as an elderly man with the bearing that comes from martial experience directing […]
