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The January 6, 2021 assault on the Capital rocked America, but it was by no means the largest, or even the most threatening, armed…
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John Sutherland had intended only to visit his brother, and now he sat in confinement, awaiting a death sentence. It was not a likely…
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The amazing story of Benoni Simmons’s military service in the American Revolution spans some fourteen years, perhaps the longest term of service by anyone…
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Dispatches can now be easily accessed on the JAR main menu. Host Brady Crytzer discusses historian Todd Braisted’s remarkable discovery of a slave who…
In a recent article, Todd Braisted reconstructed the remarkable story of a black Loyalist soldier, “Trumpeter Barney” of the Queen’s Rangers.[1] Through meticulous archival…
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“But while a confidence trickster, a play actor or a gambler can return from his performance to the ranks of his admirers, the secret…
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The period of the American Revolution does not afford many accounts of individual rank and file soldiers’ exploits, particularly on the side British side….
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Wars were fought by soldiers, but it is the campaigns and commanders that are remembered and studied. This is a shame because the soldiers…