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Showing posts with label Samuel Blachley Webb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Blachley Webb. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

“To turn his back sullenly on his General”?

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As discussed yesterday , on 19 July 1775 Gen. Joseph Spencer arrived back in the camps of what was now the Continental Army , bringing a le...
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Monday, June 02, 2025

“General Spencer’s uneasiness, &c., at being overlooked, &c.”

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According to the young Connecticut officer Samuel Blachley Webb , when Gen. Joseph Spencer learned the Continental Congress had ranked Is...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

“Came to Head Quarters and gave the following Intelligence”

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After Continental troops moved onto Dorchester heights on the night of 4–5 March 1776, Gen. George Washington and his commanders waited a...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Matching Up the Stories of the Fight in Boston Harbor

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Last week I started quoting lengthy passages from an 1835 United Service Journal article about the capture of ships carrying men of the 71...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Dividing the Prizes from Scotland

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In June 1776, Gen. Artemas Ward wrote to his commander-in-chief, Gen. George Washington , with news of the fight in Boston harbor : P.S. J...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

“Better…to lose four Spencers than half a Putnam”

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As I described yesterday , the biggest managerial challenge Gen. George Washington faced when he arrived in Cambridge on 2 July 1775 was...
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Two Mysterious Frenchmen at the Siege of Boston

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According to Lt. Col. Stephen Kemble of Gen. Thomas Gage ’s military and marital family (shown here courtesy of Live Auctioneers ), on 6 Ju...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Nailing Down Mount Whoredom

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One of the mysteries of great importance that Boston 1775 has poked through is the term “Mount Whoredom,” used by British officers in 1775-...
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