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Disaster on the Eastern Frontier
Part Two For Part One, click here. The British and loyalists would not have to wait long. Word of the landing reached the Massachusetts government within a matter of days, and preparations for a counterattack began almost immediately. There was … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, British Leadership, Campaigns, Civilian, Common Soldier, Continental Leadership, Emerging Revolutionary War, Militia (Loyalist) Leadership, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Monuments, Northern Theater, Photography, Revolutionary War
Tagged British, British Army, British Navy, Continental, Continental Marines, Emerging Revolutionary War, Fort George, Library of Congress, Loyalist, Maine, Penobscot, Penobscot Bay, Penobscot Indians, Travis Shaw
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Disaster on the Eastern Frontier
Emerging Revolutionary War welcomes back guest historian Travis Shaw. Part One I’d be willing to bet that Maine isn’t the first place to come to mind when you hear the word “frontier”. For many Americans I imagine they immediately think … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Civilian, Common Soldier, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Northern Theater, Revolutionary War
Tagged 1779, Arbuthnot, Boston, British Army, Emerging Revolutionary War, French, Halifax, Loyalist, Maine, Massachusetts, Patriot, Penobscot
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Captain John Asbhy
Part Two Captain John Ashby and his fellow Virginians would face their greatest test of the war on the afternoon of September 11th, 1777 at the Battle of Brandywine. Following a wide flank march the bulk of the Crown forces … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, Monuments, Northern Theater, Personalities, Preservation, Revolutionary War
Tagged American Battlefield Trust, American Revolution, Battle of Brandywine, Birmingham Meeting House, Captain John Ashby, Delaplane, Emerging Revolutionary War, George Washington, Johann Ewald, Marquis de Lafayette, Third Virginia Regiment, Travis Shaw, Turner Ashby, Virginia, Virginians, War of 1812, Warren Green Hotel
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Captain John Ashby
Emerging Revolutionary War welcomes guest historian Travis Shaw. Part One As he looked northward across the open ground in front of his position, Captain John Ashby could see the advance guard of the British army moving steadily closer. They came … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Common Soldier, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, Minute Men, Northern Theater, Personalities, Revolutionary War
Tagged 1776, American Revolution, Battle of Harlem Heights, Battle of Trenton, Blue Ridge Mountains, Crooked Run, Culpeper Minute Battalion, Emerging Revolutionary War, Fauquier County, French and Indian War, General George Washington, George Washington, James Monroe, John Ashby, Manhattan, New York, Travis Shaw, Virginia, William Washington, Yew Hill
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Washington’s Marshals
Emerging Revolutionary War welcomes back guest historian Michael Aubrecht September 24 of each year is the anniversary date of the Judiciary Act of September 24, 1789. It also means that the United States Marshals Service is a year older. Along … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Personalities, Revolutionary War
Tagged American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, Emerging Revolutionary War, George Washington, Henry Dearborn, Issac Huger, Judiciary Act, Lewis Morris, Nathanial Ramsey, Oliver Ellsworth, President George Washington, U.S. Marshals, William Smith
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Review: European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802 (Campaigns and Commanders Series) Edited by Frederick C. Schneid
Emerging Revolutionary War welcomes back guest historian Bill Backus The American Revolution ultimately set in motion a chain of events that transformed not only society in the Americas but also back in the Old World. Six years after the United … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Book Review, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Uncategorized
Tagged 1789, 1802, Austria, Campaigns and Commanders Series, European, Frederick Schneid, French, French Army, French Revolutiuon, Great Britain, Napoleon Bonaparte, Prussia, Russia, University of Oklahoma Press
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The Brush of John Trumbull
Emerging Revolutionary War welcomes back guest historian Michael Aubrecht John Trumbull’s paintings represent some of the most familiar depictions from the time of the American Revolution. Trumbull was a graduate of Harvard University and the gifted son of the Governor … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Continental Congress, Continental Leadership, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Northern Theater, Personalities, Preservation, Revolutionary War
Tagged Alexander Hamilton, American Academy of the Fine Arts, Battle of Quebec, Bunker Hill, Declaration of Independence, General Joseph Warren, General Montgomery, George Washington, Harvard University, John Adams, John Trumbull, London, painting, Paris, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, Yale University, Yorktown
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