Newport Rhode Island

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Logistics, The War Years (1775-1783) June 6, 2023 June 6, 2023

The French Depart Newport

by Norman Desmarais

Lt. Gen. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Comte de Rochambeau did not wake up on the morning of June 18, 1781 and order his…

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Battles, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) May 9, 2023 May 9, 2023

Engaging the Glasgow

by Eric Sterner

On April 18, 1776 Captain Tyringham Howe of His Majesty’s Ship Glasgow arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Two weeks prior, the twenty-gun sloop had engaged…

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Letters and Correspondence, People, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) May 9, 2022 May 8, 2022

Thomas Plumb, British Soldier, Writes Home from Rhode Island

by Don N. Hagist

“Dear Brother,” wrote Thomas Plumb from Newport, Rhode Island, on February 22, 1777, “this comes with my kind Love to you and hope these…

Features, Interviews, Newspapers, The War Years (1775-1783) August 1, 2021 August 1, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Norman Desmarais on the Gazette Françoise

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor, writer, and historian Norman Desmarais on the Gazette Françoise, a French newspaper published for…

Latest Comments

1. Bob Winowitch Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Excellent article Phil! Prior to his sea service Brewster served in the Suffolk County militia and one of their newly raised Minute Companies. After the war he served in the…
2. John Fitzhugh Millar The American Invasion of Canada

Benedict Arnold could see in the summer of 1774 that when a war broke out the British could simply send troops down Lake Champlain from Canada and clamp a lid…
3. Darren Sharrocks The American Invasion of Canada

Good article and very interesting but the spelling and grammar needs correcting.