Rebels And Redcoats
Participants describe the opening of the American RevolutionGeorge F. ScheerHugh F. RankinFebruary 1957 The tension between American colonists and English rulers had at last reached the breaking point....
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What was it like to actually be there in April, 1775? This is how the participants, American and British, remembered itRichard WheelerApril 1971“When the regulars had arrived within eighty or one...
View Article‘Twas The Nineteenth Of April In (18)75 — And The Centennial Was Coming Unstuck
On a new bridge that arched the flood Their toes by April freezes curled, There the embattled committee stood, Beset, it seemed, by half the world.David B. LittleApril 1972Captain John Parker’s...
View ArticleLexington And Concord
Sixth in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGEDon TroianiApril 1974The first and most unusual battle of the American Revution began in earnest when the seven hundred British regulars under the...
View Article1775, Two Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago
The Battle of Bunker HillFrederic D. SchwarzMay/June 2000Early on the morning of June 17, Gen. Thomas Gage, governor of Massachusetts and commander in chief of British forces in North America, awoke in...
View ArticleWith Little Less Than Savage Fury
America’s first civil war took place during the Revolution, an ultra violent, family-splitting, and often vindictive conflict between patriots and loyalistsThomas B. AllenFall 2010On April 22, 1775,...
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