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Washington’s Head of Elk Reconnaissance: A New Letter (and and Old Receipt)

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The Philadelphia Campaign of 1777 took definitive shape when Gen. William Howe successfully landed his 16,000 officers and men near Head of Elk (now…

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For Americans in the Revolutionary era, newspapers provided a major source of information about events related to the conflict with Great Britain. The people…

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