Hell’s Half-Acre: The Fall of Loyalist Crean Brush
byOn October 18, 1777, New York provincial assemblyman, and tory, Crean Brush, penned his final will and testament from prison in Boston. After nineteen…
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Review: Vermont’s Ebenezer Allen
byVermont’s Ebenezer Allen: Patriot, Commando and Emancipator by Glenn Fay Jr. (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021) Ethan Allen, the militia leader who shares credit…
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Wampum Belts to Canada: Stockbridge Indian Ambassadors’ Dangerous 1775 Peace Mission
byIn early May 1775, with the Revolutionary War not even one month old, western Massachusetts Patriot leaders and their Stockbridge Indian neighbors developed a plan…
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William Tryon and the Park that Still Bears His Name
byFort Tryon Park, sixty-seven acres just north of the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan, is a bucolic refuge among the skyscrapers of New York…
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Amicus Reipublicae; or, Abraham Bancker, Friend of the Republic
byAbraham Bancker gave in to temptation on September 10, 1789, when he petitioned George Washington for a federal appointment as compensation for his service…
James Lovell: Schoolteacher, Prisoner, Patriot
byJames Lovell, delegate from Massachusetts to the Second Continental Congress and the Confederation Congress from 1777 to 1782, the only member of Congress to…
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Ethan Allen’s “Motley Parcel of Soldiery” at Montreal
byWhen Ethan Allen described his defeat and capture outside Montreal at Longue Pointe on September 25, 1775, he observed that “it was a motley…
This Week on Dispatches: Mark R. Anderson on Ethan Allen’s Mysterious Defeat at Montreal
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian, retired Air Force officer, and JAR contributor Mark R. Anderson on his research into the causes…
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Ethan Allen’s Mysterious Defeat at Montreal—Reconsidered
byOn September 25, 1775, three weeks into the American invasion of Canada, the legendary Ethan Allen fought a fierce battle outside Montreal with about…
“Very Cold & Nothing Remarkable”: the Journal of Dr. Edmund Hagen, Privateer and Prisoner of War, Part 2 of 2
byThis article continues an examination of the journal kept by Dr. Edmund Hagen of Scarborough, Maine, begun in “Dispatch’t to America’: the Journal of…
“Dispatch’t Him for America”: the Journal of Dr. Edmund Hagen, Privateer and Prisoner of War, Part 1 of 2
byEdmund Hagen presumably never intended the publication of his daily journal of his 1776 stint as the surgeon on a successful, but ultimately ill-fated,…
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Orders Issued by Benedict Arnold, Commander-in-Chief, to the Captain of the Liberty
byJust weeks after war broke out at Lexington and Concord, Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, working in grudging consort,captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain,…
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The Rebel and the Tory: Ethan Allen, Philip Skene, and the Dawn of Vermont
byThe Rebel and the Tory: Ethan Allen, Philip Skene, and the Dawn of Vermont by John J. Duff, H. Nicholas Muller III, and Gary G….
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Les Habitants: Collaboration and Pro-American Violence in Canada, 1774–1776
byThe fleeting invasion of Canada in 1775, though often consigned to a bit-part in the American Revolutionary drama, proved vital to the emergence of…
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The Liberty: First American Warship, Among Many Firsts
byOne might think that the first American warship, named the Liberty, would be showered with accolades and articles touting its significant place in American…
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The Extraordinary Life of Isaac Grant of Judea, Connecticut
byThe old man stepped out into the sun, shut his door, and turned north, leaving his home in Gainesville, New York, for the county…
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Continental Congress vs. Continental Army: Strategy and Personnel Decisions
byWhen the American Revolution became a shooting war, it was left to the Continental Congress to become the body of state for the thirteen…
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British Fascination with Ethan Allen
byThe American public’s interest in Ethan Allen as a “larger than life” folk hero during and since the American Revolution is well documented.[1] After…
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Seth Warner or Ethan Allen: Who Led the Green Mountain Boys?
byThe legendary stories of Ethan Allen and Vermont’s Green Mountain Boys have long been part of American folklore. Their heroically described exploits are fabled…
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Ethan Allen: Patriot, Land Promoter or Turncoat?
byThe Controversy In the region we call Vermont today land claims were vociferously contested between settlers from New York and from New Hampshire during…
Hearth Cooking at the Ethan Allen Homestead
byThese articles have, to this point, focused on reproducing the meals of our Revolutionary-era forefathers with all of the conveniences of the modern kitchen. …
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The Legacy of Ethan Allen
byDear Mr. History: What is the true impact and legacy of the “Green Mountain Boys” and their commander, Colonel Ethan Allen? Some say they…