Under the Banner of War: Frontier Militia and Uncontrolled Violence
byIn 1777, the third year of the American War for Independence, little had gone in the favor of the Patriots especially in the borderlands….
In 1777, the third year of the American War for Independence, little had gone in the favor of the Patriots especially in the borderlands….
Book Review: Cavalry in the Wilderness: Cavalry in the Western Theater of the American Revolutionary War and the French and Indian War by Stephen L….
We asked our contributors: Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era (other than Benedict Arnold) is remembered for the wrong reasons,…
The phrase “fourteenth colony” describes a province in British North America that did not revolt alongside the original thirteen colonies. Such a province usually…
The settlers who chose to make their homes in the upper Ohio in the mid to late eighteenth century faced a wide variety of…
When the American Revolution began, the Virginia Colony faced not one military-territorial contest, but four. Its ousted Royal governor, Lord Dunmore, was in the…
George Rogers Clark and William Croghan: A Story of the Revolution, Settlement, and Early Life at Locust Grove by Gwynne Tuell Potts (Lexington: University Press…
In 1774, as tensions between colonials and Native Americans living along the upper Ohio River grew, settlers either fled east of the mountains or…
During the American Revolution, British-allied Native Americans raided American homesteads and settlements all along the Ohio Valley. As the war progressed, the increased frequency…
The story of the Revolutionary War tends to focus on operations and events east of the Appalachian Mountains, with good reason as most of…
For a high ranking British official about to be captured by Rebel forces, it was an ominous portent of future treatment. Surrounded at the…
Having recently discovered Journal of the American Revolution, I have spent many hours reading through the archive. I particularly enjoy reading the discussions that…
Taxation without representation has been the traditionally accepted cause of the American Revolution. Such an understanding of the Revolution, while valid, does not give…
From the outset, it was a military operation whose strategic goals were combined with a fierce quest for vengeance. On January 3, 1778, Lieutenant…