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The British Soldiers Who Marched to Concord, April 19, 1775
byDuring the night of April 18-19, 1775, a force of roughly 700 British soldiers left Boston on a mission to find and destroy rebel…
Battles of Lexington and Concord
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John Greenwood: Adroit Multi-talented Patriot
byThis historical chronical is about an unusual multifaceted patriot: a musician, soldier, privateer, author, and dentist. On May 17, 1760, John Greenwood was born…
North Carolina’s Response to the Battles of Lexington and Concord
byRumors roared throughout the Colonies in the spring of 1775. From Watertown, Massachusetts, with an earnest pen, a letter was taken down at 10…
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Lord Dartmouth’s War of Words, 1775
byIt was late 1775, and William Legge, the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, was looking out the window of his office in Whitehall, London, thinking…
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Patrick Henry’s March on Williamsburg, May 1775
byIt had been a very hectic week in Williamsburg for Peyton Randolph, the Speaker of Virginia’s House of Burgesses and the President of the…
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Williamsburg Becomes an Armed Camp, 1775
byNo one disputes that the fighting that erupted at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 ignited a war between Great Britain and her…
This Week on Dispatches: Patrick Naughton on Information Control and the Battles of Lexington and Concord
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews active US Army Major and JAR contributor Patrick Naughton on the narrative created by the Provincial Congress…