Disaster Avoided – The Battle of Long Island
In the summer of 1776, the British Monarchy sought to put a quick and decisive end to the rebellion in the American colonies. King George…
This Month in Revolutionary War History: Heated Battles Lead to Global Conflict
Although looked upon as an exclusively American conflict, the Revolutionary War was a struggle for global dominance; one that was both overtly and indirectly waged…
Revolutionary War Tech: The Ferguson Rifle
Within the context of the use of small arms in linear warfare, the American Revolutionary War was a conflict dominated by the musket. Smoothbore muzzleloaders…
Port Miami, Ohio – Lost in the War of 1812, Found, and Lost Again
The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain saw heavy fighting in the area of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan along the…
Slavic Siegecraft in the South: Col. Tadeusz Kościuszko at Saratoga and Ninety-Six
Siegecraft, or the art and science of surrounding and isolating enemy forces within a town or fortress, was an important element of eighteenth-century conflict and…
Sowing the Seeds of Secession: The Southern Theater of the Revolutionary War
Mainstream history and conventional accounts of the Revolutionary War recall America’s battle for independence as a conflict predicated upon a popular uprising in North America.…