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America Begins: How Connecticut’s Samuel Johnson Created America

by Neil C. Olsen

“The great End and Business therefore of Philosophy, is to make us truly happy; and this is the End ultimately pursued through all the…

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People June 12, 2013 August 28, 2016

General Gold Silliman: Snatched from Home

by Cathryn J. Prince

Sometime around midnight on May 1, 1779, British soldiers smashed through the wooden door of General Gold Selleck Silliman’s Fairfield, Connecticut home. They snatched…

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1. Bob Ruppert King Frederick the Great and the American Colonies—Mit Complimenten Aweissen

Thank you for catching the misspelling. I typed it incorrectly. These were the words that King Frederick wrote in the margin of a letter, dated October 6, 1777, that Schulenberg…
2. Bruce Venter Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns

I think Pat Hannum does justice to Mark Lender's new book on Fort Ticonderoga in his review, but he omitted mentioning a major character in the book for the year…
3. Robert A Selig King Frederick the Great and the American Colonies—Mit Complimenten Aweissen

Salut - with all due respect but as far as I know "aweisen" is not a German word. If this is a quote I suspect the original reads: "abweisen", but…