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Orderly books are great sources of information for military historians. Their contents are a treasure, and include everything from general and regimental orders, returns,…
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Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.[1] Valley Forge. For most Americans, the very name of the Pennsylvania…
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It probably started out as a good party, but as sometimes happens when merriment is mixed with a little too much alcohol, it ended…
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Continued from yesterday. Read A to Z first. M is for mobilization. Revolutionary authorities became masters of mobilizing resources at a local level to…
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One of the great ideals of the American Revolution was the notion that political authority derives from the will of the governed. Of the…
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Colonial Americans loved their rum – and their port, and their Madeira, and their beer. Many of them were confident that alcohol could cure…