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And it’s all still there.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">Natives of eastern Connecticut like to say that, except for Boston and Philadelphia, the village of Lebanon stands first in America in Revolutionary importance.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/strange-fate-black-loyalists" hreflang="en">The Strange Fate Of The Black Loyalists</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/r-d-eno" hreflang="en">R. D. Eno</a> | <a href="/content/junejuly-1983" hreflang="en">June/july 1983</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p> Thousands of them sided with Great Britain, only to become the wandering children of the American Revolution </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">IN THE EARLY summer of 1775 the rebeb of Virginia evicted their royalist governor, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, from his capital at Williamsburg and drove him to refuge aboard a British warship.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/bernardo-de-galvez" hreflang="en">Bernardo De Gálvez</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/thomas-fleming" hreflang="en">Thomas Fleming</a> | <a href="/content/aprilmay-1982" hreflang="en">April/May 1982</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p>The Revolution might have ended much differently for the Americans if it weren’t for their ally, the Spanish governor of Louisiana, who helped them wrestle the Mississippi valley from the British. </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">Imagine, for a moment, an alternate ending to the American Revolution. The thirteen rebel colonies sign a peace of exhaustion with Great Britain in 1783.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/miraculous-care-providence" hreflang="en">“The Miraculous Care Of Providence”</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/james-thomas-flexner" hreflang="en">James Thomas Flexner</a> | <a href="/content/februarymarch-1982" hreflang="en">February/March 1982</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p>George Washington’s Narrow Escapes</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content"></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/triumph-yorktown" hreflang="en">Triumph At Yorktown</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/jack-rudolph" hreflang="en">Jack Rudolph</a> | <a href="/content/octobernovember-1981" hreflang="en">October/november 1981</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p>Everything depended on a French fleet leaving the Indies on time; two American armies meeting in Virginia on time; a French fleet beating a British fleet; a French army getting along with an American one; and a British general staying put. </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content"></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/newburgh-conspiracy" hreflang="en">The Newburgh Conspiracy</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/james-w-wensyel" hreflang="en">James W. Wensyel</a> | <a href="/content/aprilmay-1981" hreflang="en">April/May 1981</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p> Encamped above the Hudson for the last, hard winter of the Revolution, the officers of the Continental Army began to talk mutiny. It would be up to their harried commander to defend the most precious principle of the infant nation—the supremacy of civilian rule . </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">Sunday, October 27, 1782. Mist and intermittent sheets of cold rain shrouded the granite spine of Butter Hill as it stretched west from the Hudson River above West Point toward the distant Shawangunk mountain range.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/you-are-invited-mischianza" hreflang="en">You Are Invited To A Mischianza</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/morris-bishop" hreflang="en">Morris Bishop</a> | <a href="/content/august-1974" hreflang="en">August 1974</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p> Saluting a departing general, the British dazzled Philadelphians with the grandest party the city had ever seen; the tiny army that had toppled the general bided its time nearby </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">In the spring of 1778 William Howe, commander in chief of His Majesty’s forces in North America, received orders to return to London and justify his actions, or rather his inactions, for he had gained no conspicuous victory in three years of war.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/men-revolution-13-john-sullivan" hreflang="en">Men Of The Revolution: 13. John Sullivan </a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/richard-m-ketchum" hreflang="en">Richard M. Ketchum</a> | <a href="/content/august-1974" hreflang="en">August 1974</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p>He was Irish, but with neither the proverbial charm nor the luck. Generals are not much known for the former quality, but the latter, as Napoleon suggested, is one no successful commander can be without. And John Sullivan was an officer whom luck simply passed by.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">He was Irish, but with neither the proverbial charm nor the luck. Generals are not much known for the former quality, but the latter, as Napoleon suggested, is one no successful commander can be without. And John Sullivan was an officer whom luck simply passed by.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/revolution-remembered" hreflang="en">The Revolution Remembered</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/content/aprilmay-1980" hreflang="en">April/may 1980</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p> Newly Discovered Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content"></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/philadelphia-ladies-association" hreflang="en">The Philadelphia Ladies Association</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/mary-beth-norton" hreflang="en">Mary Beth Norton</a> | <a href="/content/aprilmay-1980" hreflang="en">April/may 1980</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p> Although it has been disparaged as “General Washington’s Sewing Circle,” this venture was the first nationwide female organization in America </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">When news that the British had taken Charleston, South Carolina, reached Philadelphia in May of 1780, merchants and government officials reacted to the disaster by taking steps to support the inflated Pennsylvania currency and solicit funds to pay new army re</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/hessian-visits-victors-1783" hreflang="en">A Hessian Visits The Victors: 1783</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/content/augustseptember-1979" hreflang="en">August/September 1979</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content"></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/shades-rebellion" hreflang="en">Shades Of Rebellion</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/content/junejuly-1979" hreflang="en">June/July 1979</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">A few years back a Massachusetts hardware salesman named Stuart Goldman bought a trunk which, he believed, had been sealed since 1799. When he opened it, he found the crisp silhouette of the Continental officer at left.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/gallant-company" hreflang="en">A Gallant Company</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/content/februarymarch-1979" hreflang="en">February/March 1979</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">One reason most Americans find greater immediacy in the Civil War than in the Revolution is that the camera came into being during the eighty-odd years between the two conflicts.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/imprisonment-lafayette" hreflang="en">The Imprisonment Of Lafayette</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/james-wesley-baker" hreflang="en">James Wesley Baker</a> | <a href="/content/june-1977" hreflang="en">June 1977</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p> and how, a decade after the Revolution, a melodramatic rescue attempt, involving a grateful young American, went awry </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">Early on the afternoon of June 13, 1777, a French vessel slipped into an isolated inlet on the coast of South Carolina and dropped anchor.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/1783-monument-american-independence-makes-sense-yorkshire-england" hreflang="en">A 1783 Monument To American Independence Makes Sense-but In Yorkshire, England?</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/maurice-beresford" hreflang="en">Maurice Beresford</a> | <a href="/content/december-1977" hreflang="en">December 1977</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">It is normally the winners, not the losers, who erect triumphal irches at a war’s end.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/monmouth" hreflang="en">Monmouth</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/don-troiani" hreflang="en">Don Troiani</a> | <a href="/content/august-1976" hreflang="en">August 1976</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"><p> Eleventh in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGE </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">When in June of 1778 Sir Henry Clinton evacuated Philadelphia and moved his army of ten thousand British and German troops toward New York, Washington called his officers together to discuss strategy.</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-body"><div class="field-content"></div></div></div> <div class="article-keyword-results-row views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><div class="field-content Taxonomy-Term-Node-title"><a href="/men-revolution-17-joseph-reed" hreflang="en">Men of the Revolution: 17. Joseph Reed </a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing"><span class="field-content"> <a href="/users/richard-m-ketchum" hreflang="en">Richard M. Ketchum</a> | <a href="/content/june-1976" hreflang="en">June 1976</a> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-deck"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1"><span class="field-content">Like many another well-to-do young man of his day, Joseph Reed seems an unlikely revolutionist. 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