James Moncrief

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Battles, Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 22, 2021 February 20, 2021

Black Haitian Soldiers at the Siege of Savannah

by Robert Scott Davis

The story of the Black Haitian soldiers serving in the French army in the battles to wrest Savannah, Georgia, from the British in September–October…

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People, The War Years (1775-1783) July 22, 2020 July 21, 2020

Certain British and British American Actors in the Southern Theater of the War

by Ian Saberton

This article supplements one of mine that appeared in the Journal of the American Revolutionin November 2016.[1] Based partly on The Cornwallis Papers,[2] it…

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1. Mike Barbieri Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga and Mount Independence

Thanks, Brian. Brown had command of the 3rd Regiment, Berkshire County, MA, militia. I don't think he ever received a Continental commission. He died at Stone Arabia in 1780. I…
2. Mike Barbieri Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga and Mount Independence

British command in the northern theater never abandoned the German troops. At Ti before Brown's Raid, the British 62nd and, at the time of the raid, the 53rd served alongside…
3. Brian S Barrett Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga and Mount Independence

Nice job Michael. Was Brown acting under a Continental commission or on behalf of Massachusetts? The disposition of the plunder Brown took is another curiosity of mine. Did Vermont get…