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Techniques & Tech Posted on December 5, 2024December 4, 2024

A Rhode Island Officer’s Recollections Lead to New Information on Battle of Red Bank

I recently came across the recollections of Simeon Thayer, who served from 1777 to 1781 as a major in Rhode Island Continental Army regiments. He was one of the outstanding military figures from Rhode Island during the war. His recollections start with him as a teenager during the French and Indian War serving in Maj. […]

by Christian McBurney

Techniques & Tech Posted on October 8, 2019October 6, 2019

Benoni Simmons: Long-Serving Hero of the American Revolution

The amazing story of Benoni Simmons’s military service in the American Revolution spans some fourteen years, perhaps the longest term of service by anyone in that conflict. More so, his astounding dedication to the cause of independence despite his grievous wounds make him a true American hero.[1] Benoni Simmons was born August 4, 1755, the […]

by John Concannon

Techniques & Tech Posted on October 1, 2019September 30, 2019

The Whitall Family and the Battle of Red Bank

James W. Whitall (1717-1808) was a prominent Quaker businessman and farmer in the southern region of New Jersey. In 1739 he married Ann Cooper (1716-1797), a devout, no-nonsense Quaker, and together they built a house situated on a farm consisting of over four hundred acres of land along the Delaware River in Red Bank, New […]

by Gregory Safko

Techniques & Tech Posted on August 9, 2018August 8, 2018

A Visit to Old Fort Mercer on the Delaware

A motorist travelling northbound through New Jersey along Interstate 295, which tracks the east bank of the Delaware River from the Delaware Memorial Bridge, passes opposite Philadelphia, and ends a short ways beyond Trenton, might think he or she is in Europe, based strictly on fleetingly observed exit signs rather than any resemblances evoked by […]

by Rand Mirante

Tag: Battle of Red Bank

A Rhode Island Officer’s Recollections Lead to New Information on Battle of Red Bank

Benoni Simmons: Long-Serving Hero of the American Revolution

The Whitall Family and the Battle of Red Bank

A Visit to Old Fort Mercer on the Delaware