Boston 1775

Many accounts of George Washington ’s arrival in Cambridge in 1775 say that he converted the ragtag New England militia into the Continen...

On Sunday, 30 April, the Massachusetts committee of safety: heard from Col. Benedict Arnold of Connecticut about artillery up along Lake Ch...

On 29 Aug 1775 , Gen. George Washington told Richard Henry Lee , “I have at this time one Colo., one Major, one Captn, & two Subalter...

On 16 Aug 1775, the Continental Army issued its internal response to the fiery British raid on the Penny Ferry landing in Malden , descr...

When we last peeked in on Malden during the siege of Boston , a British raiding party from Charlestown had crossed the Mystic River an...

As I described yesterday , Col. Samuel Gerrish of Newbury was the first infantry officer to receive a Massachusetts commission in May 1775...

Last month I wrote about how the Massachusetts Provincial Congress finally started commissioning infantry officers for its army (as oppo...

The last witness in the July 1775 trial of Col. James Scamman for “Backwardness” during the Battle of Bunker Hill was his regimental ad...

I’ve been quoting the account of the Bunker Hill battle set down by a grandson of Capt. Ebenezer Bancroft reportedly around 1826. When we ...

A couple of days ago , I quoted a warning from New Hampshire to Massachusetts about the British army planning to seize the Charlestown and...