The Bergen County Historical Society (www.bergencountyhistory.org) has an "appeals" page on their website with many flood damage photos. I'm glad I...
According to the map in Munn's Battles and Skirmishes in New Jersey . . . (on the last page of http://nj.gov/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/battles.pdf),...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/nyregion/27george.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin The story involves Liberty Hall, which is the museum to visit...
In both Ketchum's Victory at Yorktown and Hallahan's The Day the Revolution Ended. I don't have the books at hand so can't give you the primary...
Some possible themes: Fighting preachers: "Give 'em Watts, boys!" (Rev. Caldwell at the Battle of Springfield):...
Your product development sounds like a lot of fun. Some others that may fit the bill: The Pennsylvania and Virgina riflemen's insanely rapid pace...
If "common" implies everyone, and not just Rev War buffs, then I would include the Champe story, about the daring and interesting adventures of the...
The official weekend is May 11-13. I'll be there in late April. It's easy to take in all three sites because they have a shuttle bus connecting them...
I'm going to visit Jamestown for the 400th Anniversary soon and plan to stop at Yorktown too. In preparation, I'm reading up. There's a glut of new...
I forgot to highlight an important news item on Historic Pelham. Forgive me if it's already mentioned somewhere else on our forum:...
For anyone who might want to read accounts of this battle/"skirmish", there are some primary and secondary sources extracted at Pelham's historian's...
In December 2005 I visited the Saratoga battlefield park. One of the last things I saw before leaving was Breymann's redoubt, the scene of fierce...
Thanks. Of course, the account of the riot that I mentioned was written by a Lee was by Henry Lee himself. I don't know why I spaced and assumed it...
I'm reading The Burning of Washington, by Anthony Pitch. It starts off with a really loud bang, as Pitch breathlessly gives a blow-by-blow account of...
I'm reading Muller's "Darkest Day," about the 1814 Washington/Baltimore events. This book and Elting's "Amateurs, to Arms!" have lively descriptions...
Finally finished Lords of the Lake, about the Lake Ontario theater and the American and British fleets there, commanded by Isaac Chauncey and Sir...
Yes, it is. Thank you very much.
This site has a lot of seemingly accurate information: http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/dliterature/authors/chambers/works/rwcbibl-book.htm....
It seems that there are references to this regiment in every book I've read that has anything to do with the Northern campaigns of either the...
Has anyone read his early 20th century novels on the Revolution in New York State? According to the Swiggett book on the Tory Butlers, War Out of...
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