All Articles tagged Revolutionary War

• Book Reviews
  December 26, 2021 EDT
  Book Review: John Richard Paul’s Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, A Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
  Mary Jo Davies

  Much of Joel Richard Paul’s Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, A Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution is riveting and entertaining

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• Book Reviews
  May 08, 2018 EDT
  Anne Midgley. Charles Hulett, Continental Army Drummer: A Revolutionary Life Reexamined. Self-Published, Lulu. 2018.
  Tormod B. Engvig

  In Charles Hulett, Continental Army Drummer: A Revolutionary Life Reexamined, author Anne Midgley explores the life of an eighteenth century American from the colony of...

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• Articles
  October 07, 2016 EDT
  Medical Services Available During the Revolutionary War Including Treatment for Soldiers Wounded in Action
  Jessica Lathrop

  The Revolutionary War signals the beginning of true American history, the point at which we evolved from thirteen fledgling colonies maintaining a separate existence from...

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• Articles
  October 06, 2016 EDT
  “Give Them an Indian Halloo!”
  Anne Midgley

  On the cold winter morning of 17 January 1781 in a backcountry South Carolina cow pasture, one of the most unexpected—and pivotal—battles of the American...

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• Articles
  October 05, 2016 EDT
  Daniel Morgan and Cowpens
  Francis Hoeflinger

  Daniel Morgan, warrior, husband, father, and Patriot was undoubtedly one of the most combat-experienced battlefield commanders that the American Army produced during the Revolutionary War....

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• Articles
  October 03, 2016 EDT
  Nathanael Greene
  Elizabeth D. Young

  The early morning hours of 17 January 1781 were cold and damp as Brigadier General Daniel Morgan’s wing of the southern army prepared to fight....

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• Articles
  October 02, 2016 EDT
  General Charles Lord Cornwallis and the British Southern Strategy
  Anne Midgley

  General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s temper snapped—as did the sword blade upon which he was leaning—as he listened to a humbled Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton relate...

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• Articles
  April 04, 2016 EDT
  Shock and Awe: A Summary Account of Brigadier General Griffith Rutherford’s 1776 Campaign against the Cherokee in Western North Carolina and Its Impact on American Westward Expansion
  John Chappo

  The ongoing outpouring of scholarship reveals a fascination with the revolutionary period of American history that is perhaps exceeded only by interest in the American...

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• Articles
  May 01, 2015 EDT
  Ninety Six: Strategic Backcountry Outpost and Microcosm of the American Revolutionary War
  Anne Midgley

  Though scarcely known today, in the mid-eighteenth century, Ninety Six, South Carolina was a thriving community, built close to the convergence of the Cherokee Path,...

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• Book Reviews
  May 01, 2015 EDT
  David Hackett Fischer. Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004
  Anne Midgley

  Washington’s Crossing is a striking book; a complex work that explores a pivotal moment in the American Revolutionary War as Continental Army Commander-in-chief General George...

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• Articles
  April 01, 2015 EDT
  Symbiosis of Military and Diplomatic Success in the Revolutionary War
  Andre Nolte

  The American Revolution brought about the birth of a new nation, which stood in defiance to the greatest empire in the world. The British Empire...

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• Articles
  April 01, 2015 EDT
  Call to Arms: Military Musicians in Colonial and Revolutionary America
  Anne Midgley

  In an iconic image of the Revolutionary War, two drummers and a fifer stand resolute, determined, and, in a sense, calling the shots. The drummer...

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• Book Reviews
  April 01, 2015 EDT
  Martin, Joseph Plumb. A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin. 1830. Reprint, New York: Signet Classic, 2001
  Anne Midgley

  Initially published anonymously by the author in 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin’s memoir chronicles his role as a private soldier during the American Revolutionary War. Martin...

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• Articles
  January 08, 2015 EDT
  Leadership Lessons from the Past: The Ability to Inspire Greatness Transcends Time
  Anne Midgley

  A cold winter morning in January 1781 in a cow pasture in the South Carolina backcountry became the setting for one of the most unexpected—and...

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• Articles
  June 01, 2014 EDT
  Students of War: Books and the Education of the American Continental Army
  Anne Midgley

  General George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the American Continental Army, may not have had an advanced education according to the customs of his day but...

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• Book Reviews
  September 01, 2013 EDT
  David McCullough. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2005
  Jordan Griffith

  When discussing the theme of “revolutions of the world” per-haps no other revolution sticks out in Americans’ minds quite as much as the American Revolution....

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• Book Reviews
  March 01, 2013 EDT
  Cokie Roberts. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Na-tion. New York: Harper Perennial. 2004
  Anita Kay O’Pry

  Cokie Roberts, the long-time political commentator for ABC News, bestselling author, and daughter of former Congresswoman Lindy Boggs; asked the question in the introduction of...

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• Book Reviews
  March 01, 2013 EDT
  Matthew H. Spring. With Zeal and Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008
  Jimmy Dick

  Matthew Spring has expanded his doctoral dissertation into a full length book and in the process debunked many fallacies about how the British Army operated...

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