Clement Biddle

Battles, Features, Letters and Correspondence, The War Years (1775-1783) April 18, 2021 April 18, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Gary Ecelbarger on Clement Biddle and the “Battle of the Clouds”

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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews writer and JAR contributor Gary Ecelbarger on what a letter from Clement Biddle can tell us…

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Battles, Letters and Correspondence, People, The War Years (1775-1783) March 11, 2021 March 8, 2021

Clement Biddle Partially Clears the “Battle of the Clouds”

by Gary Ecelbarger

One of the more intriguing limited actions of the Revolutionary War was the Battle of the Clouds on September 16, 1777, a meeting of…

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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…
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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…