Samuel Whittemore

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What inspired you to start researching and writing about the Revolution? It was perhaps inevitable that I would end up studying the Revolution as…

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Before the Bayonetting: The Untold Story of Capt. Samuel Whittemore

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Capt. Samuel Whittemore, a seventy-eight year old American farmer, became a legend on April 19, 1775 when he was shot in the face by…

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1. Rand Mirante “The Modern American Wallace:” Relics, Revolutions, and Revolutionaries

Thank you for this excellent, well researched and well written piece, Shawn. Seeing the Wallace statue again reminded me of fishing years ago on the idyllic Tweed river, over which…
2. Douglas R Dorney Lord Rawdon at Camden—Giving a Victor His Due: Occupation and Pacification

On July 1, 1780, Rawdon wrote Rugeley that he would award " the inhabitants ten guineas for the head of any deserter belonging to the Volunteers of Ireland, and five…
3. David Price Ten Crucial Days, Five Crucial Factors

I think you're absolutely right, Bill - that's a point I make in the manuscript I'm working on that's a very extended version of the article. Thanks for your comments,…