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Economics, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) March 12, 2019 March 14, 2019

How Robert Morris’s “Magick” Money Saved the American Revolution

by Harlow Giles Unger

The year 1780 ended badly, and the new year boded worse for America’s War of Independence. Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold’s treason and defection to…

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Economics, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) January 21, 2019 January 21, 2019

Continental Congress vs. Continental Army: Paying For It All

by Stuart Hatfield

When the Second Continental Congress met in June 1775, they were not prepared for what they found. Several months earlier on April 19 the…

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1. John Fitzhugh Millar The American Invasion of Canada

Benedict Arnold could see in the summer of 1774 that when a war broke out the British could simply send troops down Lake Champlain from Canada and clamp a lid…
2. Darren Sharrocks The American Invasion of Canada

Good article and very interesting but the spelling and grammar needs correcting.
3. William Cooke The American Invasion of Canada

It may have been more appropriate to use the spelling Canadien to refer to the French-speaking inhabitants of the Province of Quebec during the Revolutionary War.