9th Virginia Regiment

Features, Interviews, The War Years (1775-1783) January 30, 2023 January 30, 2023

This Week on Dispatches: John Settle on the 9th Virginia Regiment

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews history teacher and JAR contributor John Settle on the story of the 9th Virginia Regiment, the Eastern…

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Battles, Prisoners of War, The War Years (1775-1783) January 19, 2023 January 19, 2023

The Eastern Shore Battalion: The Story of the 9th Virginia Regiment

by John Settle

In July 1775, the Third Virginia Convention passed an ordinance to create two regiments of regulars and fifteen battalion for minute service. The counties…

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1. Stuart Manson The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

He was, however, the fellow who was killed at the Battle of Stone Arabia (Mohawk Valley area), October 19, 1780, by a Loyalist-British-Indigenous raiding party under Sir John Johnson.
2. John Concannon The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

Thank you for this informative article. As a point of clarification, this article by Michael Barbieri refers to Col. John Brown, someone not to be confused with the John Brown…
3. Christian McBurney The Great New York Fire of 1776

A model book review Gene well done. Benjamin in his book discusses the possibility that Washington secretly ordered the fires but the author prudently does not go overboard on the…