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Reviews Posted on May 17, 2022May 16, 2022

The Brothers Bliss: A Soldier’s Account Behind the New York Lines

The Bliss Family roots run deep in Connecticut. Born in England around 1618, Thomas Bliss became a founder of Hartford and Norwich, Connecticut before passing away in 1688 in Norwich. His name is marked along with several others on a lone stone obelisk in the original Norwich Founders Cemetery, erected in the nineteenth century. Thomas […]

by Dayne Rugh

Reviews Posted on May 12, 2022May 16, 2022

Edward Hand’s American Journey

It has been said of Edward Hand that he was “the stuff of which the hard core” of Washington’s army was made.[1] Indeed, he may have been the most unsung Patriot military hero of the American Revolution. On the second day of 1777, Hand organized a remarkable defensive action along the road from Princeton to Trenton, […]

by David Price