They have 3 recent books that look interesting: Benedict Arnold's Army, Arthur Lefkowitz; Fusiliers (regimental history of Royal Welch Fusiliers),...
Recently read Washington's Last Cantonment, by Dempsey. It's organized by month and week from the fall of 1782 to summer 1783. It's about half...
I'm finally reading Stryker's Battle of Monmouth. His chapter on Lee's advance detachments' movements in the morning of the 28th is one of the most...
Just read an alternate-history story in which Burr is president and starts the war with England earlier. It's told entirely in letters, newspaper...
http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2007/08/index.html (start with the August 19th entry) These are 7 or 8 well-written and lengthy articles,...
I was in Niagara Falls, Ontario for three days last week and went to the Lundys Lane Museum and the nearby "battlefield," which is now a Presbyterian...
"Part of the battle on Jan. 3, 1777, was waged on 22 acres of gently sloping farmland now owned by the Institute for Advanced Study. The...
September 6, 1776: First use of submarine in war. The "American Turtle" unsuccessfully attacks British fleet off Staten Island...
"'The papers of Sir William Johnson' published in 14 volumes, including a General Index, were edited under the direction of the New York State...
There must be a lot of "Revolution Day-by-Day" timelines and calendars out there, both printed and online. Does anyone have any favorites? I was...
I'm planning to go to all of those places later this summer. What's the Lundy's Lane museum in Niagara Falls, Ontario like?
A Revolutionary comic book hero, the Black Coat: http://www.the-black-coat.com/about_v3.htm I work near a comic book store so I'll check it out...
I'm guessing American bodies were brought back to the US from Canada, so . . . a cemetery in Buffalo?
Is it supposed to be Laura Secord, the Paul Revere of Queenston? This page shows a different Secord statue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Secord
Ontario's Fort George?
The distinctive blockhouses look like illustrations in a young adult book on 18th century Canadian-British frontier forts that I read when I was 10...
Thanks so much for that info. A couple years ago I searched both the New York Public Library and Libvrary of Congress's catalogs for books on the...
Yes, the same Ward. The national park mostly has earthworks, most of them said to be reconstructions. The small visitor center had some of...
A case of "jumped the gun"? Today's Star-Ledger follows up: "Muzzleloader firearms used by war re-enactors and New Jersey deer hunters were exempted...
A New Jersey Star-Ledger article says: "The Continental Army and the Redcoats may have to go at each other with baseball bats in New Jersey....
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