Tag: Chesapeake Bay

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Chesapeake Bay Privateers in the Revolution

Chesapeake Bay Privateers in the Revolution by Leonard Szaltis (The History Press, 2019) Leonard Szaltis does the reader the favor of stipulating the intent of his piece: “To demonstrate the circumstances colonists faced in one local region . . . to increase knowledge about the history of the Chesapeake Bay and the Eastern Shore during […]

by Michael Tuosto
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Captain Septimus Noel: Ordnance Fleet Commodore

History occasionally provides a pleasant surprise by revealing the record of an ordinary person who, thrust into a unique role, performed extraordinary services for his country. In researching the movement of American ordinance from the Hudson River and Philadelphia to Yorktown in 1781, this author discovered that the commodore appointed to lead the ordnance fleet, […]

by William W. Reynolds
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Recognizing the Skirmish at Kemp’s Landing

November 10, 1775 was an important day in both Great Britain and America. Lord George Germain assumed duties as the Secretary of State for the American Department—“he was virtually War minister in the British cabinet”—and the Continental Congress authorized two battalions of marines, giving birth to the United States Marine Corps.[1] Two hundred and forty-three […]

by Patrick H. Hannum