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This Week on Dispatches: Robert Guy on the Westmoreland Rangers

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Robert Guy on the service of western Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland Rangers, a volunteer rifle force, in Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. New episodes of Dispatches are available for free every Saturday evening (Eastern United States Time) on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Amazon Music, and the JAR Dispatches web […]

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The Westmoreland Rangers and “The Suffering Fruntears”

Warfare during the American Revolution could be brutal; this brutality took on entirely new dimensions in the frontier, and could be devastating, unrelenting, and all-pervading. Threats came in many forms—isolation, starvation, exposure; labor took countless forms as well, demanding never-ending toil and dogged perseverance. Like many whose charge was to defend America’s back door, the […]

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