United States Army2d
Samuel Whittemore: Indomitable patriot of the American Revolution
By Henry HoweDirector, Fort Jackson Museum CommunityOn April 19, 1775, as British Regulars retreated from Lexington and ...
Richmond Register2d
Revolutionary Threads Exhibit Opens at Irvinton House Museume
The Irvinton House Museum proudly unveiled a captivating new exhibit, "Revolutionary Threads: Uniforms of our Patriot ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
How an American Merchant, a French Official and a Pioneering Chemist Smuggled Much-Needed Gunpowder to the Continental Army
Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...
WOUB Public Media3d
Key military tech in the American colonies’ fight for freedom in “Revolutionary War Weapons” on NOVA – April 9 at 9 pm
NOVA “Revolutionary War Weapons” Wednesday, April 9 at 9:00 pm In April 1775, war breaks out in Britain’s most troublesome ...
For Black people, the Revolution was full of paradoxes
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
Smithsonian Magazine4d
What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?
How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...
A Knapsack’s Worth of Courage
Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.