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Whale Boats on the Hudson
byBy March of 1778 Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam, “Old Put” to his men, was exhausted.[1] He had been writing to General Washington for months…
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The Loyalist Exodus of 1778
byIn March 1778, several hundred South Carolina Loyalists began a march to the British province of East Florida to seek refuge from persecution and…
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The Follies of General John Lacey and the Pennsylvania Militia in 1778
byI’ve written before about the darker side of the militia, but what hasn’t yet been detailed is the general incompetence of the Pennsylvania militia….
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Massacre Averted: How two British Soldiers saved 350 American Lives
byIn the early morning hours of September 28, 1778, British Troops under Major General Charles Grey surprised and decimated an entire regiment of Continental…
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“Strange Mismanagement”: The Capture of HMS Syren
byAfter 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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Lee’s Defeat… in Court
byDuring the sweltering hot day of June 28, 1778, the Continental Army and the British Army fought the longest battle of the Revolutionary War…
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Almost Yorktown
byThe circumstances that forced the surrender of Cornwallis’s army at Yorktown are familiar enough. The British were trapped on a peninsula, Washington’s Continental Army…
Bushnell’s Mine Nearly Sinks a Ship
byWhen the Royal Navy fleet of warships and transports, carrying a British army of more than 7,000 soldiers, passed New London, Connecticut, on December…
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John Houstoun and the 1778 Expedition to East Florida
byAt the time of the revolution, John Houstoun was one of four brothers from a prominent plantation owning family in Georgia. Unlike Patrick and…
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The Forgotten First Battle of Monmouth
byFought on June 28, 1778, the Battle of Monmouth is correctly remembered as one of the largest battles of the American Revolution, and the…
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Mary Hays McCauley’s Claim to Fame
byMYTH: “American women also won fame for their bravery during the war. Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley earned the name Molly Pitcher by carrying fresh…