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Features, Reviews January 30, 2019 January 29, 2019

The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

by Kelly Mielke

The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch (Flatiron Books, 2019). On June 28, 1776—only days before…

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1. Nathaniel James Blood of Tyrants: George Washington and the Forging of the Presidency

Reaching Chapter 4, I paused and put the book down. This one will be getting traded up for something else. This read like someones homework assignment that they paid a…
2. Mike Cecere Picking Up the Pieces: Virginia’s “Eighteen-Months Men” of 1780–81

Good point. I never meant to imply that Virginia was the only colony exhausted from the war.
3. Mike Cecere Picking Up the Pieces: Virginia’s “Eighteen-Months Men” of 1780–81

Hello. I think you are referring to the Chesterfield Size Roll that was done for these very troops who assembled at Chesterfield County Courthouse. The Southern Campaign of the American…