James Livingston

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Critical Thinking, Memoir, People, The War Years (1775-1783) December 31, 2020 January 4, 2021

Ethan Allen’s “Motley Parcel of Soldiery” at Montreal

by Mark R. Anderson

When Ethan Allen described his defeat and capture outside Montreal at Longue Pointe on September 25, 1775, he observed that “it was a motley…

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Culture, Loyalists, Patriots, The War Years (1775-1783) July 9, 2019 July 8, 2019

Les Habitants: Collaboration and Pro-American Violence in Canada, 1774–1776

by Sebastian van Bastelaer

The 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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1. Stuart Manson The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

He was, however, the fellow who was killed at the Battle of Stone Arabia (Mohawk Valley area), October 19, 1780, by a Loyalist-British-Indigenous raiding party under Sir John Johnson.
2. John Concannon The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

Thank you for this informative article. As a point of clarification, this article by Michael Barbieri refers to Col. John Brown, someone not to be confused with the John Brown…
3. Christian McBurney The Great New York Fire of 1776

A model book review Gene well done. Benjamin in his book discusses the possibility that Washington secretly ordered the fires but the author prudently does not go overboard on the…