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In the weeks before it declared independence, the Continental Congress was already hard at work building the institutions it would need to maintain the…
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In the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, as the British Army repositioned its forces from western frontier posts into American cities, many…
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During the American Revolution, many players were removed from the chess board of war as a result of capture. From individual soldiers and sailors…
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Put yourself, in your mind’s eye, back in June 1776, specifically, the period between June 7 and July 1. It is precisely at that…
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During the American Revolution, Bergen County, New Jersey, was flooded with combatants from all over America, many of whom had never been to the…
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While the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was on holiday in the summer of 1774, his office continued to receive…
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War, an odious invention of man, attempts to portray the enemy as subhuman, unworthy of normal sympathy. Civilized societies respected the sanctity of human…
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New Jersey Governor William Franklin is one of the forgotten major players in the American Revolution. By the fall of 1775, he was the…