Tag: Lord Richard Howe

Posted on June 2, 2021June 4, 2021

A Howe Woman Celebrates the Glory of the First of June, 1794

The letters of Caroline Howe in the British Library have for the first time revealed the private life of her brother, Adm. Richard Lord Howe, the hero of the Glorious First of June and commander-in-chief of the British fleet in America, 1776-1778. Howe has so baffled naval historians that Sam Willis labelled him “obsessively secretive” […]

by Julie Flavell

Posted on January 18, 2018January 12, 2018

Franklin’s Secret Efforts to bring about Reconciliation

Benjamin Franklin made two missions to London prior to the Revolution; the first from 1757 to 1762, the second from 1764 to 1775. In the final four months of his second mission he became involved in three efforts to secure a peaceful solution to the constitutional divergence that was growing between England and her American […]

by Bob Ruppert