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Thursday, April 18, 2019
Capt. Thomas Barnard and the Signal from Old North
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Last spring I wrote a bunch of postings about the debate over who hung the signal lanterns from Old North Church on 18 Apr 1775, John Pul...
Thursday, April 06, 2017
A Boy’s View of “Leslie’s Retreat”
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My favorite account of “Leslie’s Retreat” appeared in the first volume of the Proceedings of the Essex Institute in 1856. It consists of ...
Thursday, February 23, 2017
“Retreat and Resistance” in Salem, 26 Feb.
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On Sunday, 26 February, Salem will have a “fun and informal reenactment” of the confrontation between Patriots and redcoats across the t...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
The Myth of Major John Pedrick
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Another of this season’s new Revolutionary history books is Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775 , by Peter Charles Hof...
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