Boston 1775

Back in 2013 I quoted Charles Lee ’s 18 June 1756 letter to his sister on being “adopted by the Mohocks into the Tribe of the bear under th...

Yesterday by chance I listened to two podcast episodes about the French & Indian War that were so diametrically different in approach th...

Yesterday I took note of a pamphlet that the Rev. Dr. Charles Chauncy published in 1774 about the Boston Port Bill couched as a “Letter t...

Horace Walpole , the son of British prime minister Robert Walpole and at the end of his life the fourth Earl of Orford, died in 1797. A q...

Last week Mount Vernon, Washington College, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced the winner of the 2016 George ...

Yesterday I described how the battle at Fort Necessity on 3 July 1754 didn’t reflect well on Lt. Col. George Washington , but really di...

Early last week I shared some predictions about John Hancock and Dr. Joseph Warren that didn’t turn out to be that far-sighted since ther...

To close off my poking around in the record of the Braddock sash , I found more information about how and when it came (back) to Mount Ver...

Some recent books on Mount Vernon refer to a “Washington sash” in its holdings. For example, The George Washington Collection (2006) show...

I decided to use the Founders Online to further explore a topic I addressed earlier in the month: George Washington ’s military sashes . In...

As I said yesterday, Katherine Glass Greene’s 1926 local history Winchester, Virginia, and Its Beginnings, 1743-1814 contains a confused ...

As I quoted yesterday , in 1894 Bettie Taylor Dandridge rediscovered Gen. Edward Braddock ’s military sash amid her father’s old things. Her...

Yesterday I quoted Wills De Hass’s 1851 account of how Gen. Edward Braddock ’s sash passed through George Washington ’s hands into the poss...

Yesterday’s posting showed Carol James’s recreation of a sash that Gen. Edward Braddock reportedly gave to young George Washington in 175...

The Summer 2013 issue of Spin-Off magazine offers an article by Carol James about her work recreating a sash that the dying general Edward...

In early August 1775, or one month after he arrived in Cambridge to take command of the Continental Army , Gen. George Washington received...

On 28 May 1754, Lt. Col. George Washington of Virginia was involved in an embarrassing skirmish that helped to spark the global conflict ca...

Number 14 on page 305 of Braddock’s March , by Thomas Crocker: The first-hand accounts are conflicting and confusing as to where the flying ...