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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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Review: Standing in Their Own Light: African-American Patriots in the American Revolution
Emerging Revolutionary War welcomes guest historian Bill Backus to the blog. Fighting for Independence, Patriots commonly argued they were combating an attempt by the English Crown to reduce the American colonies to slavery. The irony that most leaders crowing … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, Book Review, Memory
Tagged 1781, 1st Rhode Island, African Americans, American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, Battle of Pines Bridge, Bill Backus, British, British Army, Continental, Continental Army, Deep South, John Laurens, Laurens Family, Patriots
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Lachlan McIntosh
On a recent trip to Valley Forge National Historical Park I came across the monument to featured below, of a general that did not initially ring a bell in my memory. So I did a little investigating. The first name … Continue reading
Posted in Continental Congress, Continental Leadership, National Park Service, Northern Theater, Personalities, Revolutionary War, Southern Theater
Tagged British, British Army, Button Gwinnett, Charles O'Hara, Continental Army, Creek Native Americans, George Washington, Georgia, Jacobite Rebellion, James Oglethorpe, Lachlan McIntosh, President George Washington, Scotland, Siege of Charleston, Siege of Savannah, St. Augustine, Valley Forge, Valley Forge National Historical Park, War of Jenkins' Ear, William McIntosh
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The Battle of Groton Heights, September 6, 1781: The Fort Griswold Massacre
Part One After turning coat, Benedict Arnold received a commission as a brigadier general in the British army as part of the deal that he made in order to betray his country. In August 1781, George Washington decided to shift … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, British Leadership, Campaigns, Northern Theater, Personalities, Revolutionary War
Tagged 1775, 1778, 1781, 38th Regiment of Foot, 54th Regiment of Foot, American Revolutionary War, Arnold's American Legion, Battle of Groton Heights, Benedict Arnold, British Army, British Regulars, Connecticut, Continental Army, Cortland Skinner's New Jersey Volunteers, Eric Wittenberg, Fort Griswold, Governor John Trumbull, Hessian, Hessian Jagers, Loyal American Regiment, Loyalist, militia, New London, New York City, Rufus Avery, Sir Henry Clinton, Thames River, William Ledyard
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Lexington, 242 years later
Lexington Green 242 years later, the question still remains…. Who fired first?
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, British Leadership, Campaigns, Memory, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Minute Men, Monuments, Northern Theater, Revolutionary War
Tagged Battle of Lexington, Battles of Lexington and Concord, British, British Army, Lexington, Lexington and Concord, Lexington Green, militia, Minutemen
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Two Places the American Revolution Could’ve Started
Recently, I had the chance to head to New England to take photos for an upcoming publication in the Emerging Revolutionary War Series. While there I ventured to Salem, Massachusetts and New Castle, New Hampshire. Two great places filled with American history and … Continue reading
