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. Dan R Kinsey The Mythology of Stony Point

Michael, Great articles of the areas Revolutionary War! Thanks for these. In re. your article on the Battle of Stoney Point and the Myth of Pompey, I recently was researching…
2. Adam Zielinski Loyalist Slave-Owning Refugees in Postwar Jamaica

"In the colonial mind, the right to liberty was synonymous with property ownership." This statement is somewhat misleading. While it's certainly the case with powerful colonists, i.e., those who owned…
3. John Knight Loyalist Slave-Owning Refugees in Postwar Jamaica

I think Patrick deserves praise for raising an awkward and contentious topic. The debate over slavery during the Revolution and its aftermath is bound to be antagonistic. (As can be…