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Editor’s Note: This is part one of a five-part series. Part two. Part three. The “Diary” of Lieutenant James McMichael first appeared in 1890…
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Outmaneuvering and overwhelming the Patriots during the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, the British won a huge victory by executing a daring night march around…
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One of the most enjoyable aspects of researching the history of the American Revolution is the process of looking beneath and/or beyond those events…
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If you are a theatre fan who is interested the American Revolution, you may have realized how few shows exist on the subject. While…
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There isn’t a doubt that Oliver Reed was just like any other soldier who had gone away to fight in the American Revolution, writing…
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In Hershel Parker’s excellent article in the October 2014 Journal of the American Revolution (“Fanning Outfoxes Marion”) he makes reference to an important research…
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Put a large army in a rural community overseas, and some problems are bound to occur. Such was the case when thousands of British…
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1. On July 4, 1776, the United States declared itself an independent nation. This is almost true, but the timing is a tad off….
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Washington’s desperate situation in December 1776 and the critical victories at Trenton and Princeton have been described often and in great detail. His lack…
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Lying between Vermont and New York, astride the border between the United States and Canada, accessible via canals from the St. Lawrence and Hudson…
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It was an unfortunate expedient, but one that had grown unavoidable. On September 8, 1776, George Washington penned a lengthy report to Congress in…
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After a British fleet of seventy-one warships and transports entered Narragansett Bay on December 7, 1776, and the next day landed soldiers that occupied…
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This article was originally published in Journal of the American Revolution, Vol. 1 (Ertel Publishing, 2013). By Ray Raphael and Benjamin H. Irvin If…
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It was January 1776. In a bold plan hatched in London to end this rebellion, General Sir Henry Clinton was to sail from New…
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Until the early decades of the 20th century saw wide-spread construction of roads in North America, water provided ready-made highways. Lake Champlain formed 125…
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THE TRIAL THAT GRIPPED THE NEW NATION The Grand Jury in Richmond determined that there was ample evidence of George Wythe Sweeney’s guilt. Virginia…
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George Wythe was about the last person anybody would ever want to murder. At age 80, Wythe was an exceedingly kind and generous man…
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In the autumn of 1776 loyalists from East Florida under Thomas “Burntfoot” Brown and Daniel McGirth frequently raided the southern parishes of Georgia keeping…
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Until the capture of Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright in World War II, the highest-ranking American generals taken prisoner were Major Generals Benjamin Lincoln and…
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Signers of the Declaration of Independence are treated with particular reverence in American historical memory. Caesar Rodney, Delaware’s delegate to the Second Continental Congress,…
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When the Continental Congress first commissioned the use of private ships and boats of war in April 1776, they specified that each vessel’s commander…
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In September 1776[1] there occurred an incident of long distance marksmanship, or luck, that deserves a close look. The eyewitness, Private Joseph Plumb Martin[2]…
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At what point during the American Revolution is it most acceptable to classify colonists as either Patriots or Loyalists? 1776. Before this, many…
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Yes and no. I do not believe British efforts to create a true empire could have worked. The colonies had for many years been…
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Each year, more than a million people walk through the cold, dark Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington DC to glimpse the U.S….
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It’s a simple question — perhaps so basic that it’s been overlooked. How old were the key participants of the American Revolution? Authors often…
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“The day will be most memorable in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations…
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Myth: “In 1776, when Maryland instructed its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote against independence, Chase launched a successful campaign to persuade the…
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Questions about the validity of the Molly Pitcher legend bring up a broader gap in our understanding of military affairs during the era of…
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To be a Tory in the northern colonies was to understand and fear the consequences of confinement at the infamous copper mine of Simsbury,…
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Throughout time men have cringed at the notion of being thought a coward. A reputation for lack of courage can be and always has…
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Myth: Within months of its publication, 120,000 copies (or 100,000 or 150,000 or 500,000) of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense were sold in the rebellious…
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Myth: Americans did not formally resolve for independence until 1776. Busted: On October 4, 1774, the town meeting of Worcester, Massachusetts, declared that British…
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When researching the biography of Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren, I had the unexpected pleasure of becoming acquainted with his fiancée Miss Mercy…
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The American Revolution is quite obviously a very broad topic. It would require a huge quantity of books, even watered down to the “essentials,”…
“It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting…
When Congress, in late June 1775, authorized the raising of six rifle companies from Pennsylvania and Virginia, George Merchant enlisted as a private. He…