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The efforts of a group of self-taught Patriot spies who would later become known as the Culper Spy Ring played an important role in…Read More
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From 1765 to 1766, botanist John Bartram explored Florida, the new southern territory Britain acquired after the Seven Years’ War. William Bartram, his son,…Read More
May 31, 2021 May 29, 2021 THE CAPTURE OF NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR THOMAS BURKEby Travis Copeland
When the vote came on Tuesday, July 26, 1781, before the House’s evening adjournment, it was Thomas Burke’s turn to hold theExecutive office…
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May 27, 2021 May 24, 2021 WAMPUM BELTS TO CANADA: STOCKBRIDGE INDIAN AMBASSADORS’ DANGEROUS1775 PEACE MISSION
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May 24, 2021 May 21, 2021 WILLIAM BABCOCK AND HIS INACCURATE PENSION APPLICATION by Michael J. F. Sheehan The Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston defines primary sources as “immediate, first-hand documents of a topic, frompeople who had a…
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May 20, 2021 May 19, 2021 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CAPTAIN JOHANN EWALD AT YORKTOWNby Jason Glasser
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May 18, 2021 May 17, 2021 A RECONSIDERATION OF CONTINENTAL ARMY NUMERICAL STRENGTH AT VALLEYFORGE
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May 17, 2021 May 16, 2021 WILLIAM TRYON AND THE PARK THAT STILL BEARS HIS NAMEby Scott M. Smith
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May 13, 2021 May 10, 2021 DAVID WOOSTER KEPT THE MEN AT QUEBEC: GIVING CREDIT TO A MUCH-MALIGNED GENERALby Mark R. Anderson
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May 12, 2021 May 10, 2021 CONTRIBUTOR QUESTION: IF YOU COULD CURATE A MUSEUM EXHIBIT . . . .by Editors
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May 11, 2021 May 12, 2021 A CHOICE BODY OF MEN: THE CONTINENTAL ARMY ON THE UPPER OHIOby David P. Ervin
The settlers who chose to make their homes in the upper Ohio in the mid to late eighteenth century faced a wide variety of…Read More
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May 10, 2021 May 9, 2021 REVIEW: WAR AT SABER POINT: BANASTRE TARLETON AND THE BRITISH LEGIONby Todd W. Braisted
War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion by John Knight (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2020) The American Revolution produced numerous well-known…Read More
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1. Bill Bleyer George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring: Separating Factfrom Fiction
As noted by Selden, Brewster was in fact an officer in the Continental Army. Beverly Tyler, Historian for the Three Village Historical Society, one of my main sources for the…*
2. Selden George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring: Separating Fact fromFiction
Sorry; my mistake. I have been working with earlier correspondence. Brewster was promoted later in the war (1780) to captain lieutenant in the Continental Army.*
3. Selden George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring: Separating Fact fromFiction
Caleb Brewster was named a lieutenant in John Lamb's 2d Continental Artillery in 1777. In the correspondence with Washington during the war, Brewster is always addressed or referred to by…*
4. Jim Zeitler George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring: Separating Factfrom Fiction
So then, what is the most accurate book written in this subject? Justcurious
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November 16, 2017 February 20, 2018 THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, SECOND YEAR: NOVEMBER 1773 – AUGUST 1774by Bob Ruppert
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March 23, 2016 February 20, 2018 A BRIEF HISTORY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S RESIDENCES ON CRAVEN STREET, LONDON: 1757 – 1775by David Turnquist
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November 27, 2015 July 28, 2016 HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL by James Kirby Martin Review of the Broadway musical Hamilton, now playing at the Richard Rodgers Theater on 46th Street in New York City. Let me confess at…Read More
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November 3, 2015 August 28, 2016 THE AMERICAN VICARS OF BRAYby Todd W. Braisted
Loyalists, those Americans who openly supported the British Government during the American Revolution, have been largely assumed to have had unchanging allegiance during the…Read More
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