Tag: Spencer’s Ordinary

Posted on March 9, 2023March 8, 2023

“Earned By Veteran Intrepidity”: Spencer’s Ordinary, June 26, 1781

Captain Johann Ewald had much to thank the Almighty for.[1] A heroic stand on the picket line before Norfolk, Virginia, parried an American thrust and covered the captain and his men with glory, but it had nearly cost him his leg and left him bed bound and bereft of the command of his beloved Jӓgers. […]

by Conor Robison

Posted on November 10, 2022November 9, 2022

The Battle of Green Spring: A Footnote on the Road to Yorktown

Ensign Ebenezer Denny calculated that he went from a green officer to a combat veteran in all of four minutes. Yet in those harsh two hundred and forty seconds he felt like anything but a leader of men in battle. Adrenaline alone was no match against hard marching amidst the brutal Virginia heat with a […]

by Conor Robison