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Frontier, Native Americans, People, Postwar Politics (>1783), The War Years (1775-1783) September 20, 2022 September 20, 2022

Marinus Willett: The Exploits of an Unheralded War Hero

by Richard J. Werther

Marinus Willett was born the son of a Quaker, Edward Willett, on July 31, 1740, in Jamaica, Long Island (now part of Queens). After…

Culture, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Postwar Politics (>1783) August 19, 2021 August 19, 2021

The Politics and Iconography of Tammany in the Early American Republic

by Keith Muchowski

On the morning of Saturday, July 14, 1804 the funeral cortège for Alexander Hamilton proceeded northward to Trinity Church where the former Revolutionary War…

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1. Stuart Manson The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

He was, however, the fellow who was killed at the Battle of Stone Arabia (Mohawk Valley area), October 19, 1780, by a Loyalist-British-Indigenous raiding party under Sir John Johnson.
2. John Concannon The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

Thank you for this informative article. As a point of clarification, this article by Michael Barbieri refers to Col. John Brown, someone not to be confused with the John Brown…
3. Christian McBurney The Great New York Fire of 1776

A model book review Gene well done. Benjamin in his book discusses the possibility that Washington secretly ordered the fires but the author prudently does not go overboard on the…