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Thursday, September 12, 2024
“In what Scenes of Distress and Terror”?
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On the afternoon of 6 September, news of the “Powder Alarm” reached Philadelphia, where the First Continental Congress had just started me...
Monday, August 18, 2014
A Virginian on New York’s Doctors’ Riot
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In the spring of 1788 a Virginia planter and retired colonel named William Heth (1750–1807) was in New York , commissioned by his state as...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
How Not to Do Counterintelligence
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Christopher Marshall (1709-1797) was an Irish-born Philadelphia merchant active in Revolutionary politics, for which he was eventually expe...
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