This Week on Dispatches: Mike Matheny on How Paperwork Saved the Continental Army
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews graduate student and JAR contributor Mike Matheny about his fascinating research and article about how the…
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David Wooster Kept the Men at Quebec: Giving Credit to a Much-Maligned General
byMost modern historical treatments of the American invasion of Canada disparage Brig. Gen. David Wooster for his leadership in Canada. A detailed examination of…
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“The Predicament We Are In”: How Paperwork Saved the Continental Army
by“Few people know the predicament we are in,” wrote George Washington, while he expressed the Continental army’s dire circumstances.[1] By January 1776, just six months…