Bloody Ben Tarleton Chases the Swamp Fox November 10, 2024British,Colonial,Strategy & TacticsHarry Schenawolf From November 7 – 14, 1780, in the lowlands of South Carolina, along the Santee River, a cat and mouse game played out between two wily and deadly opponents; rebel leader Colonel Fr...
shoot, and handle a sword left-handed. Soon he was commanding a unit of Loyalists, raiding privateer bases along the New Jersey shore. During a raid on Little Egg Harbor, Ferguson demonstrated his ability to conduct combined land-sea operations, employing tactics of unusual and innova...
In a stunning military campaign, Washington had turned the tables, and breathed life into the dying cause for liberty during the Revolutionary War. Lexington and Concord George C. Daughan’s magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of ...
promotions by purchase. Though they received no formal training, they were not so dependent on a book knowledge of military tactics as were many of the Americans. British generals, however, tended toward a lack of imagination andinitiative, while those who demonstrated such qualities often were ...
Explore the causes of the American Revolution and what events led to the Revolutionary War. Review major events and the purpose of the American...
Kochwas more than the blunt, funny man New Yorkers either loved or hated. Elected in the 1970s during the cityâs fiscal crisis, he was a new Democrat for the dawning Reagan era, fiscally conservative and socially liberal.Kochfinds the former mayor politically active to the end (he died ...
January 2, 2023Armies, Battles, British, Colonial, Strategy & TacticsHarry Schenawolf Battle of Brier Creek, March 3, 1779. This depicts the final surrender of the Georgia Continentals and Militia commanded by Colonel Samuel Elbert. After the North Carolina militia ran from the field, th...
22、e main army of the North and forced the North to sign Peace Agreements. While the North was unprepared and taken the so-called "snake plan".The commander McClellan showed sympathy to slave owners and took a negative tactics, which caused the Northern Army continued to suffer. The follow...
Horatio Lloyd Gates (26 July 1727 – 10 April 1806) was a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga – Benedict Arnold, who led the attack, was finally forced from the field when...
This weak-minded individual has lately been weaned off that particular drug by some less-than-democratic boot-boy tactics by two of the men with most to lose if anything should go wrong with the process of ratification: Brown, because if the Portuguese hold a referendum, it makes his resista...