Boston 1775

On 29 Aug 1775, Capt. Hector McNeill arrived in Québec on board another captain’s ship from Dominica . He brought false news of a battle ...

As quoted yesterday, on 29 Dec 1775 Col. Henry Knox wrote that Gen. Philip Schuyler “sent out his Waggon Master & other people to all ...

Even as Col. Henry Knox was moving cannon south from Lake Champlain, Gen. Richard Montgomery was besieging Québec . The American Revolu...

The Sestercentennial of Col. Henry Knox ’s mission to Lake Champlain in the winter of 1775–76 is coming up, and Fort Ticonderoga is on it....

When Dr. Benjamin Church wrote his intelligence report on 24 Sept 1775, the latest big event along the Continental lines was the departure...

When the eminent historian George Bancroft discussed Thomas Gage ’s April 1775 decision-making in 1860, he wrote that the general was just t...

Earlier this week I mentioned Stephen Darley’s 2011 book Voices from a Wilderness Expedition , a bibliography of all known diaries and fir...

Samuel Lockwood (1737–1807, gravestone shown here courtesy of Find a Grave ) of Greenwich, Connecticut , became a second lieutenant in the C...

Yesterday I quoted the Boston businessman and court official Ezekiel Price about Col. Henry Knox and the artillery he brought from Lake...

As I’ve discussed under the label of Pope Night , the 5th of November was a big holiday in colonial Boston. That was when Boston’s young me...

A couple of Boston 1775 readers have asked me whether Col. Henry Knox took any precautions to hide the artillery he moved from New York ...

While I was confirming some figures in Charles H. Lesser’s The Sinews of Independence , a Bicentennial book collecting the best records of t...

Here are two views of the action outside the city of Québec 236 years ago. The first comes from the journal of an officer identified on the ...

Thomas Gage , British army officer and younger son of a baronet, and Margaret Kemble , daughter of a wealthy New Jersey merchant, married in...

Last month I discussed Brook Watson (1735-1807), who was born in Boston, lost a leg to a shark in Havana, and went on to a very successful ...