A Miniature History of the American Revolution

This is the most recent entry in a series of posts on the American invasion of Canada, for an index of past posts, see here . Sorel was occu...

The guns at Fort Saint-Jean fell silent late on November 1, 1775 . The next day was spent in negotiations, and the formal surrender took pl...

An American army commanded by Major-General Philip Schuyler crossed into southern Canada on September 4, 1775 , and established a base at L’...

This is the third and final post devoted to a skirmish at Rivière Saint-Jean in southern Canada that took place on September 18, 1775. For t...

The first two American movements against Fort Saint-Jean ended in disappointment (cf. here and here . On the third attempt, however, the Am...

At the time that Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga and raided Saint-Jean in the province of Quebec [cf. Allen and Ar...

Hessian Major Carl Leopold Baurmeister was in New York when the battle of Cowpens was fought in South Carolina (January 17, 1781). Neverthe...

War came to Canada soon after the beginning of the American Revolution. On May 17, 1775 (less than 1 month after the inaugural battle at Lex...

Recently, I’ve come across new evidence about how the British force was deployed at the onset of the fateful battle of Cowpens . This eviden...

30 Days to Glory: May 18-19 Previous: May 15 - May 17 Thursday, May 18 : Major Charles Preston of the 26th Foot has his men up at an early h...

Here is a look at a drummer of the 7th Regiment of Foot (Essex miniatures). To provide some sense of scale, I've posed him next to my i...

Part 21: Collapse Previous: Washington and Howard Charge Next: Flight After Howard charged, several specific things happened at this time so...

Part 17: The Second Crisis Previous: The First Crisis Next: The Third Crisis In the center of the battlefield, the British front line bore d...