Boston 1775

The Battle of Brooklyn on 27 Aug 1776 didn’t end well for the Continental Army . Gen. Sir William Howe ’s forces inflicted heavy casualties...

On the afternoon of 27 Aug 1776, British and Hessian soldiers under Gen. James Grant advanced on a Continental force, including men from...

From the start of nationhood Americans have spoken of the “thirteen colonies,” but really it was more like twelve and a half. The Penn fam...

In June 1776, Lt. John Ragg of the marines was in Halifax, Nova Scotia , with the rest of the British military force evacuated from Boston...

While speaking in Morristown last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Jason R. Wickersty, a National Park Service ranger. He just wrote...

Most Americans viewed the British evacuation of Boston in March 1776 as a triumph. The colonies’ third-largest port had been liberated wi...

Earlier this month DNA Info New York reported that British map dealer Andrew Adamson says he might have found an unusual hand-drawn map of ...

All Things Liberty recently featured new co-editor Don Hagist’s list of “Top 10 Battles of the Revolutionary War.” The only certainty about...

On the night of 29-30 Aug 1776, the Continental Army evacuated almost all of its troops from Long Island to Manhattan Island as the bigge...

In other news tied to the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776, the New York Times reported on Sunday about local historian Bob Furman’s attempts...

At the Awl, Robert Sullivan is sharing a series of discursive articles on “how the trail of the Battle of Brooklyn would pass across mod...

Thanks to everyone who came out to my talk about the early Continental artillery at Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters last night....

Maj. Daniel Box , once a sergeant in the British army who released himself on his own recognizance , became quite prominent in the Continent...

The Smithsonian website offers Prof. John Ferling ’s article “Myths of the American Revolution” . Ferling explores how some common generali...

Peter Feinman of the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education sent me an announcement for a series of Revolutionary War lectures in...