Boston 1775

History, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution in New England.

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Showing posts with label James Wilkinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Wilkinson. Show all posts
Monday, December 02, 2024

Tracking the Lovells from Nova Scotia to Natchez

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Continuing my exploration of the Creating a Federal Government website , I looked up another man active among Boston Whigs before the war wh...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

The Move onto Ploughed Hill and “Poor Billy Simpson”

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On the evening of 26 Aug 1775, two thousand Continental soldiers moved onto Ploughed Hill in west Charlestown , assigned to dig entrenchmen...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

New Henry Burbeck Collection at the Clements Library

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Earlier this year, the Clements Library at the University of Michigan acquired more than 1,600 documents in the Papers of Henry Burbeck ...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

The Value of Spying in America

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Michael J. Sulick was the chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2002 to 2004 and director of its National C...
Saturday, September 05, 2009

Dueling Events on 1 October

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On the evening of Thursday, 1 October, there are two scholarly events in Boston that intrigue me, but of course I can attend only one. Oh, w...
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