Boston 1775

On Thursday, 13 March, I’ll speak at Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site on “Choosing a Commander: Myths ...

One striking feature of Richard Lechmere ’s 22 May 1775 letter to Henry Seymour Conway, partially transcribed here , is how well informed th...

The National Council for Social Studies, the largest professional association devoted to social studies education, will meet in Boston on 19...

This anecdote comes from a 17 Sept 1775 letter by Dr. Hall Jackson , tending to New Hampshire troops during the siege of Boston : A shell ...

On 27 July 1775, the Continental Congress created a hospital department for its army outside Boston. It also appointed Dr. Benjamin Chur...

I’ve been analyzing the likely sources for the 15 Jan 1776 article in John Dunlap ’s Pennsylvania Packet about the flag on Prospect Hill a...

Today I’m speaking at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site’s Henry Knox Symposium, so I’ll share one more post about Henry Knox. ...

In October the American Revolution Institute published an intriguing article about a British print in its collection, one of only two known...

Instead of porphyria as the explanation for George III ’s madness, in the paper I quoted yesterday Timothy Peters pointed to bipolar diso...

On Thursday, 8 October, the Fraunces Tavern Museum in New York will share a talk by Christian McBurney on “George Washington’s Nemesis: ...

On 13 Aug 1775, Gen. George Washington issued orders for a court-martial to take place the following day with Gen. Nathanael Greene pres...

In The Battle of April 19, 1775 , Frank W. Coburn included this anecdote about the aftermath of the British march: About a sixth of a mi...

I step away from The Saga of the Brazen Head at a moment of calamity to consider a passage in merchant John Andrews ’s letter to a Philadel...

As promised, I’m going to explore the story of the “New York Tea Party.” And I’ll start with the sea captain James Chambers. The Roster...

The 2018 Fort Ticonderoga Seminar on the American Revolution is coming up on 21-23 September 2018. This is the fifteenth annual seminar i...

Longtime Boston 1775 readers may recall when Gen. Charles Lee ’s dog Spado (sometimes spelled Spada) first came to public attention. J...

Gen. Charles Lee was captured in New Jersey on 13 Dec 1776. On 28 Jan 1777 he wrote from British-occupied New York to Robert Morris in...

In a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia dated 19 Sept 1775, Gen. Charles Lee complained about the Continental Army ’s New Engla...

On 31 May 1776, Samuel Johnston wrote a letter to his sister Hannah Iredell from Halifax, North Carolina, describing what people were tal...

In 1771 George Washington ordered a bookplate incorporating his family coat-of-arms to be engraved and asked for more than 400 printed co...