On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author, historian, and JAR contributor Michael Cecere on the French occupation of Williamsburg, Virginia, after the British…
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It is widely acknowledged that the military alliance between the United States and France, established in 1778, was responsible not only for a number…
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The months leading up to the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781 are often glossed over in histories of the Revolutionary War. But they…
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France was defeated in the Seven Years War. The defeat resulted in France losing valuable colonies, and prestige and influence in Europe. Desperate to…
On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor John E. Happ on the enigmatic Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais. Best known today for his plays, The…
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Aside from being outmanned by the best army in the world when the American Revolution started, it was clear that the American forces were…
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In July 1780, after three and half months at sea, nearly 6,000 thousand men[1] and supplies crammed on four frigates, seven ships of the…
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Following American success at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, French King Louis XVI signed the Treaty of Amity and Friendship, establishing open French…
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The participation of the French on the side of the newly declared independent American colonies is widely acknowledged as the factor that tipped the…
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We often hear about intelligence activities which take place during times of war. Having good intelligence is indeed critical to military and diplomatic success….
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Norman Desmarais, professor emeritus at Providence College, is one of America’s most important scholars of French involvement in the American Revolution. Desmarais has long…
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“Unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place,” Gen. George Washington wrote from Valley Forge on December 23, 1777,[1] to Henry Laurens, the…
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One would expect that a country that had been at war for five years would welcome its first ally with open arms. We might…
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At nine o’clock on the morning of May 6, 1778, Continental soldiers at Valley Forge emerged from their huts to hear their regimental chaplains…