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Showing posts with label Bennington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bennington. Show all posts
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Francis Akley, Continental Ranger

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When I started to focus on Joseph Akley , I also introduced his brothers: Francis, one year older, and Thomas, John, Samuel, and William, f...
Monday, August 17, 2020

The Death of Prisoners after the Battle of Bennington

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New England troops and Crown forces, including French -speaking Canadians and German -speaking Hessians and Brunswickers, fought the Bat...
Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Hubbard on Black Soldiers at Bennington, 9 Oct.

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Also at the Massachusetts Historical Society, tonight’s public lecture is “The Black Presence at the Battle of Bennington” by Phil Holla...
Monday, February 03, 2014

Samuel Ely and the “Plunder Master General”

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It took several months for Samuel Ely to respond to the accusation that militia colonel William Williams lobbed down at him from Vermont...
Sunday, February 02, 2014

The Rev. Samuel Ely at Bennington

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The latest issue of The Massachusetts Historical Review , for the year 2013, contains Shelby M. Balik’s paper “‘Persecuted in the Bowels o...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

The Origin of “Live Free or Die”

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Back in February , I wrote about Rep. Michele Bachmann’s reverence for the Founding Fathers, and how trying to reconcile that conviction wit...
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Friday, April 02, 2010

“Not Cutting the Flesh”

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While searching for examples of Continental soldiers losing feet to rolling cannon balls (none found so far), I came across some interesti...
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