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Frontier, Historiography, The War Years (1775-1783) March 17, 2021 September 3, 2021

Virginia’s Independent Frontier Companies, Part 1 of 2

by Gabriel Neville

When the American Revolution began, the Virginia Colony faced not one military-territorial contest, but four. Its ousted Royal governor, Lord Dunmore, was in the…

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People September 28, 2015 August 28, 2016

The Neglected Andrew Lewis

by Jeff Dacus

From the time that Congress adopted the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, the army was a work in progress. Such things as the…

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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…