Elizabeth Zane

Features, Frontier, Interviews, Native Americans, People, The War Years (1775-1783) May 3, 2020 May 3, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Eric Sterner on the Siege of Fort Henry

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor and writer Eric Sterner on the Siege of Fort Henry on the Virginia frontier in 1782….

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Myths and Legends, People, The War Years (1775-1783) January 14, 2020 January 14, 2020

Betty Zane and the Siege of Fort Henry, September 1782

by Eric Sterner

In 1774, as tensions between colonials and Native Americans living along the upper Ohio River grew, settlers either fled east of the mountains or…

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Nice job, Phil! Always interesting to read about the daily grind of fighting. The big battles are important but just as important on the nasty little firefights going on all…
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Fascinating article with great information on the men who manned the spy boats. I particularly enjoy articles that explore the lives of the participants in the fight for American Independence.
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