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Features, Frontier, Postwar Conflict (>1783), Reviews, The War Years (1775-1783) June 3, 2020 May 23, 2020

George Rogers Clark and William Croghan

by Gabriel Neville

George Rogers Clark and William Croghan: A Story of the Revolution, Settlement, and Early Life at Locust Grove by Gwynne Tuell Potts (Lexington: University Press…

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Critical Thinking, The War Years (1775-1783) March 13, 2019 March 15, 2019

Contributor Question: Best Strategic Defeat?

by Editors

This month, we asked our contributors to consider the many changes of fortune that occurred over the tumultuous four decades that transformed thirteen British…

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People February 17, 2015 August 28, 2016

George Rogers Clark at Vincennes: “You May Expect No Mercy”

by Joshua Shepherd

From the outset, it was a military operation whose strategic goals were combined with a fierce quest for vengeance. On January 3, 1778, Lieutenant…

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1. Mike Barbieri Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga and Mount Independence

Thanks, Brian. Brown had command of the 3rd Regiment, Berkshire County, MA, militia. I don't think he ever received a Continental commission. He died at Stone Arabia in 1780. I…
2. Mike Barbieri Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga and Mount Independence

British command in the northern theater never abandoned the German troops. At Ti before Brown's Raid, the British 62nd and, at the time of the raid, the 53rd served alongside…
3. Brian S Barrett Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga and Mount Independence

Nice job Michael. Was Brown acting under a Continental commission or on behalf of Massachusetts? The disposition of the plunder Brown took is another curiosity of mine. Did Vermont get…