This Week on Dispatches: Eric Sterner on the Siege of Fort Henry
byOn 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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Mining Liberty: Daniel Roberdeau’s Quest for Lead on the Pennsylvania Frontier
byIn the fall of 1777, the Continental Congress had reached one of its most desperate points of the American Revolution. In September of that…
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Daniel Boone: Facts vs. Hearsay
byIn Hollywood terms, biographies of Daniel Boone might be advertised as, “Based on a true story.” Daniel Boone being known as a legendary Kentucky…
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Virginia Looking Westward: From Lord Dunmore’s War through the Revolution
byTaxation without representation has been the traditionally accepted cause of the American Revolution. Such an understanding of the Revolution, while valid, does not give…
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The Final Theaters, the Final Fights
byThe British defeat at Yorktown in October 1781 did little to convince those fighting that peace was near. Gen. George Washington pleaded with his…
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George Rogers Clark at Vincennes: “You May Expect No Mercy”
byFrom the outset, it was a military operation whose strategic goals were combined with a fierce quest for vengeance. On January 3, 1778, Lieutenant…
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A Want of Arms in Pennsylvania
byRemember when I wrote that nobody ever said life on the Pennsylvania frontier was easy?[1] Well, as it turns out, it was a lot…
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The Battle of St. Louis
byWhile the War of American Independence was won on the Eastern seaboard by American and French battling the British, the future of the United…
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William Cocke at the Battle of Long Island Flats, 1776
byThroughout time men have cringed at the notion of being thought a coward. A reputation for lack of courage can be and always has…
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From Cuckoo to Charlottesville: Jack Jouett’s Overnight Ride
byBecause the heat was oppressive, and perhaps because the dinner and drink sat heavy in his gut, John Jouett Jr. curled up beneath the…