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Natural History, Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783) August 2, 2022 August 2, 2022

Top Ten Weather Interventions

by Don N. Hagist

“In war, as in medicine, natural causes not under our control, do much.” Gen. Horatio Gates wrote this about the terrain that so heavily…

People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Prisoners of War, The War Years (1775-1783) January 5, 2021 January 3, 2021

James Lovell: Schoolteacher, Prisoner, Patriot

by Jean C. O'Connor

James Lovell, delegate from Massachusetts to the Second Continental Congress and the Confederation Congress from 1777 to 1782, the only member of Congress to…

Culture, Historic Sites, Memorials September 6, 2018 September 5, 2018

The Dorchester Heights Memorial, South Boston, and the Celebration of Evacuation Day

by John E. Happ

On my way to Boston’s Logan Airport a while ago a taxi driver pointed towards Boston Harbor and started telling me about a Revolutionary…

Latest Comments

1. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Joe. There is so much there in such things if you take a look. It gets you to the minutia that people like you and me get into.
2. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Mike. The support documents often have a lot of information. If drill down a bit farther, there are sometimes letters from later generations in the application file that identify…
3. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

You need to take these depositions with a large grain of salt. I use them a lot for my research/writing, but they need at least some confirmation or a parallel…