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Warriors for the Republic
Detail of print depicting George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette on horseback, visiting soldiers at their winter encampment at Valley Forge. Source: Library of Congress In mid-May of 1778,...
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Top 10 Continental Army Generals
In addition to George Washington, during the course of the American Revolution, the Continental Congress commissioned seventy-seven other men as general officers, with four — Seth Pomeroy, John...
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Honorable Lords and Pretended Barons: Sorting Out the Noblemen of the...
The Revolutionary War brought a substantial number of European noblemen to North America, a region that lacked a hereditary aristocracy. Although most of these members of the nobility held genuine...
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Top 5 Foreign Continental Army Officers (Other Than Lafayette)
At the war’s outset, there was a dearth of proven military leadership within the thirteen colonies severely limiting the Continental Army’s ability to engage the British on equal terms. This paucity of...
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Lafayette’s Second Voyage to America: Lafayette and l’Hermione
In 1775, Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette was an eighteen-year-old French soldier assigned to military maneuvers at Metz. At Metz, he attended an official dinner where the Duke of Gloucester, younger...
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The Marquis de Lafayette, European Friend of the American Revolution
Mount Vernon is proud to serve as the 2015 conference host and co-sponsor for the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)’s Annual Conference on the American Revolution. Other partner organizations...
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Unlocking the Mystery of Ten Revolutionary Generals’ Signatures
Documents that contain the original signatures of more than one Continental Army general are rare. During the eight years of the Revolutionary War, generals... The post Unlocking the Mystery of Ten...
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The Glorious Career and Unfortunate Death of John Laurens
George Washington surrounded himself with the best and the brightest young men involved in the revolutionary cause. Alexander Hamilton, Tench Tilghman, Robert Harrison, the... The post The Glorious...
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Bernard E. Griffiths: Trumpeter Barney of the Queen’s Rangers, Chelsea...
The period of the American Revolution does not afford many accounts of individual rank and file soldiers’ exploits, particularly on the side British side.... The post Bernard E. Griffiths: Trumpeter...
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Captain Septimus Noel: Ordnance Fleet Commodore
History occasionally provides a pleasant surprise by revealing the record of an ordinary person who, thrust into a unique role, performed extraordinary services for... The post Captain Septimus Noel:...
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Hamilton’s Revenge
Having just attained his thirteenth (or eleventh) birthday, he found himself confined to a bed on the second floor of a small two-story house... The post Hamilton’s Revenge appeared first on Journal of...
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The Double Spy: The Service and Suffering of Caleb Bruen
“But while a confidence trickster, a play actor or a gambler can return from his performance to the ranks of his admirers, the secret... The post The Double Spy: The Service and Suffering of Caleb...
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The Day Notre-Dame Cathedral Hosted Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and King...
1785 was a rare year in Paris—it was safely nestled between revolutions. The American Revolution had come to an official end right there in... The post The Day Notre-Dame Cathedral Hosted Thomas...
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Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and French Fries
Thomas Jefferson and Julia Child. Not two people you’d expect to be linked in history. But yet, indeed they are—as two gourmets who loved... The post Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and French Fries...
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Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the...
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship That Helped Forge Two Nations by Tom Chaffin (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019)... The post Revolutionary...
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Washington’s Head of Elk Reconnaissance: A New Letter (and and Old Receipt)
The Philadelphia Campaign of 1777 took definitive shape when Gen. William Howe successfully landed his 16,000 officers and men near Head of Elk (now... The post Washington’s Head of Elk Reconnaissance:...
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George Washington’s 1777 Wilmington, Delaware, Headquarters: Insights to an...
On the 170th anniversary of Washington’s Birthday in 1902, the Delaware Society of the Cincinnati formed a procession of dignitaries and marched up Quaker... The post George Washington’s 1777...
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L’Expédition Particuliere: Winter 1780 and the Battle of Cape Henry
In July 1780, after three and half months at sea, nearly 6,000 thousand men[1] and supplies crammed on four frigates, seven ships of the... The post <i>L’Expédition Particuliere</i>: Winter...
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Native Americans at Valley Forge
At the Bethlehem Hospital near Valley Forge on November 21, 1777, John Ettwein visited a “Narragansett Indian in great distress about his soul, at... The post Native Americans at Valley Forge appeared...
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Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Hannah Till,...
The 1820 Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state, established Maine as a free state, and banned slavery in the territory west... The post Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black...
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