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Colonel Abraham Buford’s Virginia Battalion, 1780-1781
byCol. Abraham Buford is most famous for his defeat at Waxhaws, South Carolina, on May 29, 1780. His defiant message to Lt. Col. Banastre…
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
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Patriots and Politics, Redcoats and Reconstruction: General Nathanael Greene’s Grand Southern Strategy
byMajor General Nathanael Greene’s military career presents a paradox to historians: how could a Quaker, unlearned in the art of war, become one of…
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The Battle of Green Spring: A Footnote on the Road to Yorktown
byEnsign Ebenezer Denny calculated that he went from a green officer to a combat veteran in all of four minutes. Yet in those harsh…
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The Importance of a Small Skirmish during the Race to the Dan
byThe Race to the Dan is a famous part of the Southern War of the American Revolution, a strategic retreat by Gen Nathanael Greene,…
The Capture of North Carolina Governor Thomas Burke
byWhen the vote came on Tuesday, July 26, 1781, before the House’s evening adjournment, it was Thomas Burke’s turn to hold the Executive office…
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North Carolina and Public Spirit in the American Revolution, 1775–1783
byIn the South, the American Revolution was largely a civil war, one between Whig supporters of American liberties and Loyalists or Tories, who remained…
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Nathanael Greene and the Challenge of Supplying the Southern Army
byA New England Quaker in his late thirties was not the ideal candidate for the job, according to the Continental Congress. Instead, Congress chose…
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Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Thomas Carney, Maryland Continental Soldier
byJohn Russwurm and Samuel Cornish establish the first African American newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, in New York in 1827. The paper circulated in eleven states,…
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Review: To the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan
byTo the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan by Andrew Waters (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2020)…
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A Demographic View of North Carolina Militia and State Troops, 1775–1783
byAfter nearly a quarter of a millennium, what do we really know about the militia and state troops that served during the Revolutionary War?…
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Tower of Victory
byAs far back as the eleventh century B.C. attackers confronted by fortified cities and towns, castles, and forts, used siege towers to elevate their…
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Cornwallis and the Winter Campaign, January to April 1781
byLeaving Colonel Francis Lord Rawdon to command in the field from Georgetown to Augusta, Lt. Gen. Charles Earl Cornwallis, the British General Officer Commanding…