John Dickinson and the Letter to Canada
byAfter the French and Indian War the British government made a number of decisions with respect as to how it would govern its North…
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How the (First) West Was Won: Federalist Treaties that Reshaped the Frontier
byFrom November 1794 to October 1795, President George Washington’s administration brokered three separate treaties with Britain, Spain, and the Confederated Tribes of the Ohio…
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Johnson Cook: Patriot Warrior
byIn the fall of 1796, just months before George Washington’s presidency ended, thirty-six-year-old Revolutionary War veteran Johnson Cook (1760-1848), a Connecticut native, petitioned the…
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Washington’s Final Retreat: Asylum?
byGeorge Washington’s appointment as commander of the Continental Army filled him with doubt from the start. In his address to the Continental Congress on…
A Choice Body of Men: The Continental Army on the Upper Ohio
byThe settlers who chose to make their homes in the upper Ohio in the mid to late eighteenth century faced a wide variety of…
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An American Bolingbroke: John Taylor of Caroline’s Republican Opposition, 1792–1794, Part 2 of 2
byHenry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, in the first half of the eighteenth century, and John Taylor of Caroline in the 1790s, both feared that…
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The Lenape Origins of an Independent America: The Catalyst of Pontiac’s War, 1763–1765
byIn the wake of the Seven Years’ War in North America, the costly British triumph seemed complete. Thus, when a coda to the Seven…
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Betty Zane and the Siege of Fort Henry, September 1782
byIn 1774, as tensions between colonials and Native Americans living along the upper Ohio River grew, settlers either fled east of the mountains or…
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The Siege of Fort Laurens, 1778–1779
byDuring the American Revolution, British-allied Native Americans raided American homesteads and settlements all along the Ohio Valley. As the war progressed, the increased frequency…
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This Week on Dispatches: Eric Sterner on the Gdnadenhutten Massacre
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Eric Sterner about the Gnadenhutten Massacre, the murder of ninety-six Delaware Indians—men, women, and children—at a…