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Frontier, Myths and Legends, Native Americans, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) November 7, 2023 November 7, 2023

A Leap of Faith in the Historical Record: The Legend of McColloch’s Leap

by Al Dickenson

With a group of forty cavalrymen, Maj. Samuel McColloch rode to the aid of Fort Henry, near Wheeling, Virginia. It was September 1, 1777,…

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Frontier, Historiography, The War Years (1775-1783) March 17, 2021 September 3, 2021

Virginia’s Independent Frontier Companies, Part 1 of 2

by Gabriel Neville

When the American Revolution began, the Virginia Colony faced not one military-territorial contest, but four. Its ousted Royal governor, Lord Dunmore, was in the…

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Myths and Legends, People, The War Years (1775-1783) January 14, 2020 January 14, 2020

Betty Zane and the Siege of Fort Henry, September 1782

by Eric Sterner

In 1774, as tensions between colonials and Native Americans living along the upper Ohio River grew, settlers either fled east of the mountains or…

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1. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

That was a joke about the attorneys (the grin text was not picked up when the comment posted).
2. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Mark, likewise. Thanks also for the correction. I love working with original documents, but transcriptions can sometimes be difficult. Many of the pension application files are actually harder to…
3. Mark Sternberg Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Nice article, Phil, and great to meet you at Fort Lee. Just a minor correction - it's Zachariah "Hawkins," not "Newkirk."