This Week on Dispatches: Mike Matheny on How Paperwork Saved the Continental Army
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews graduate student and JAR contributor Mike Matheny about his fascinating research and article about how the…
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“The Predicament We Are In”: How Paperwork Saved the Continental Army
by“Few people know the predicament we are in,” wrote George Washington, while he expressed the Continental army’s dire circumstances.[1] By January 1776, just six months…
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Contingencies, Capture, and Spectacular Getaway: the Imprisonment and Escape of James Moody
byOne of the most famous or notorious of Tory partisans in the American Revolution was the New Jersey soldier and spy James Moody. Moody…
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The Love Letters of Alexander Scammell
byOne of our oldest known stories is The Odyssey, in which Odysseus travels from the Siege of Troy on various adventures to reach his…
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A Yorktown Footnote: The Last Days of Col. Alexander Scammell
byThe highest ranking Continental Army officer to be killed during the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 was Col. Alexander Scammell, 34-year old commander of…