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Outbreak! New York, 1779
by“The number of sick increasing every day, in all the different Camps of the army,” wrote Capt. John Peebles in his diary on September…
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Plight of the Loyalist Refugees of Lloyd’s Neck, Long Island
byQueens County of Long Island, New York, had an overwhelming Loyalist population throughout the Revolutionary War period. After the war many Loyalists remained on…
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Terror in the Ramapos
byWhile there were many Revolutionary-era outlaws, Claudius Smith and the Cowboys of the Ramapos stand apart. Their story has long been exaggerated and romanticized…
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Donald McCraw of the 42nd Regiment Wields his Broadsword
byIn March and April of 1780, there was a string of home invasions and robberies around the villages of Jamaica and Flushing on Long…
Maintaining Normalcy in British-Occupied Brookhaven, Eastern Long Island, New York
byIn August 1776, the Crown’s disciplined forces easily displaced the unprepared Continental resistance in the Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle…
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Richard Augustus Wyvill: A British Officer’s Journal as the War Winds Down
byThe 38th Regiment of Foot disembarked in Boston in the summer of 1774, and spent the next nine years in America involved in some…
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Patriots Against Loyalists on Eastern Long Island, 1775–1776
byIn 1775, within weeks of the violent clashes at Lexington and Concord, Patriots throughout the colonies established Committees of Observation to thwart Loyalists from…
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Oatmeal for the Foxhounds: Tarleton in Jericho
byAfter the fall of New York in 1776 Long Island became occupied territory for combined British and Loyalist forces during the remaining years of…
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Washington Plays Hardball with the Howes
bySummering on Long Island in 1776 was no vacation for Gen. George Washington. As commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, he was attempting to build…
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The Spartans of Long Island
byAccording to some local sources, “Long island was the Thermopylae of the Revolution and the Pennsylvania Germans were its Spartans.”[1] While laden with hyperbole…
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Abraham Woodhull: The Spy Named Samuel Culper
byAbraham Woodhull, spy for General George Washington, nearly got himself hanged on one of his first missions. It was in October 1778, when Woodhull…
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The Long Shot of September 1776
byIn September 1776[1] there occurred an incident of long distance marksmanship, or luck, that deserves a close look. The eyewitness, Private Joseph Plumb Martin[2]…