Boston 1775

Yesterday we left schoolteacher Jonathan Hastings, Jr. , and the rest of Col. Thomas Gardner ’s Cambridge militia contingent caught near...

Two hundred fifty years ago, the fifty-eight artillery pieces that Col. Henry Knox had convoyed from Fort Ticonderoga were in Framingham ...

By this date 250 years ago , Col. Henry Knox had checked in with his commander, Gen. George Washington , in Cambridge . The artillery th...

On Wednesday, 1 Jan 2025, the city of Somerville will observe its annual Grand Union Flag Raising, 249 years after Gen. George Washington ...

I’m participating in a series of free events at the start of September to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the “Powder Alarm” and the ...

With yesterday’s posting, Boston 1775 has entered the Patriot’s Day season for 2024. It’s hard to find a complete posting of Patriot’s Da...

We have two remarks from British observers inside besieged Boston about the flag the Continentals raised on Prospect Hill in what’s now S...

On 15 Jan 1776, John Dunlap ’s Pennsylvania Packet newspaper in Philadelphia published a round-up of war news for its readers. Here are s...

Twice in the past few weeks I’ve found myself discussing the question of which towns’ militia companies were actually in the fighting on 19...

Somerville usually celebrates the flag -raising on Prospect Hill on the anniversary of that event. Unfortunately, that’s on 1 January—not a...

One of the places that plays a significant role in “The End of Tory Row,” as I’ve entitled my free public lecture on Thursday evening, i...

The new year can’t start without Somerville ’s annual commemoration of the raising of the “Grand Union flag ” at Prospect Hill Park. That ...

On Saturday, 29 June, from 1:00 to 4:00 P.M., the Paul Revere House in the North End will host Fred Lawson, a founder of the Royal Irish ...

On the morning of 1 Sept 1774, the Boston merchant John Andrews wrote this in a letter to a relative in Philadelphia: Yesterday in the af...

To be honest, Somerville doesn’t even have to offer activities on Patriots’ Day to catch my attention with that poster . But in fact the c...

On Sunday, 11 March, the Somerville Museum will host a talk and book signing by Alan Hoffman on “ Lafayette and the Farewell Tour: Odyssey...

As I described back here , when Gen. Charles Lee first came to Cambridge , he and Gen. George Washington shared the Wadsworth House near H...