A chronological journey through the Revolutionary War.
Although parties had established a preliminary peace treaty in 1782, the process of moving the British army and loyalist civilians out of New York took well over a year. General Guy Carleton remained concerned about leaving behind any loyalists who might suffer the wrath of their neighbors for loyalty to the crown.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Guy Carleton: A Biography, by Paul R. Reynolds
Online Recommendation of the Week: A Tory-Eye View of the Evacuation of New York, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23174025
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The Powder Alarm resulted from a British raid in September, 1774 to capture powder from a local storage site. It made clear that the patriots needed better intelligence and a better rapid response system to challenge the British soldiers.
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Although major operations of the war ended in 1781, it took several more years before negotiators could work out a peace treaty. The American Peace Commissioners bickered with one another, and had to navigate French diplomacy and British politics to reach a final deal. On September 3, 1783, all parties signed Peace treaties in Paris, formally agreeing to the terms that would end the war.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Treaty of Paris: The Precursor to a New Nation, by Edward Renehan (borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: “Definitive Treaty of Peace between the United States and Great Britain, 3 September 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-40-02-0356
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In June of 1783, British forces (not yet aware of the preliminary peace treaty that had been concluded in late 1782) attacked the Indian town of Cuddalore. The British besiege the city while a French fleet challenges a larger British fleet from control of the waters off the city. The British Commander, General James Stuart, finds himself fighting not only the French and Mysore, but also finds himself at odds with the British Governor who controlled the region for the East India Company.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Suffren Versus Hughes: War in the Indian Ocean 1781-1783, by Quinton Barry.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Siege of Cuddalore (1783) https://www.ripublication.com/ijhss/ijhssv5n1_09.pdf
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In the summer of 1783, disgruntled Continental soldiers march on Philadelphia, forcing Congress to flee to Princeton. Washington sends the majority of the Army home, keeping only a few hundred men.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years after Yorktown, 1781-1783, by William H. Fowler, Jr.
Online Recommendation of the Week: New Light on the Philadelphia Mutiny of 1783: Federal-State Confrontation at the Close of the War for Independence http://www.jstor.org/stable/20091201 or https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/43383/43104
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British agent James Logan Colbert raises a force of western loyalists and Chickasaw Indians to attack a Spanish outpost on the Arkansas River. The Spanish garrison manages to chase off the attackers, but not before the sack the village and take prisoners.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: James Colbert and His Chickasaw Legacy, by Stephen L. Kling Jr.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Arkansas Post Story: https://archive.org/details/arkansaspoststor00cole
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The Continental Congress struggles in late 1782 and early 1783 to find a way to pay the army and its creditors for the cost of the war. It's inability to levy taxes, or convince the states to pay, results in a financial crisis. Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris, announces his retirement. Word of the Treaty of Paris forces Congress to act.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution, by David Head.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Robert Morris and Reporting for the Treasury Under the U.S. Continental Congress: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40698202
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In early 1783, all Americans await the arrival of an expected peace treaty. The Continental Officers, afraid that they will be sent home without any pay and their promised pensions, organize to challenge Congress. General Washington manages to talk down his officers and save the country from a military coup.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Swords in Their Hands: George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy, by Dave Richards.
Online Recommendation of the Week: THE LAST OFFICIAL ADDRESS, OF HIS EXCELLENCY General WASHINGTON, TO THE Legislatures of the United States https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.12024/N14414/N14414.html
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After a few final skirmishes, the British army evacuates Charleston, SC in December 1782. They take with them thousands of loyalist militia, civilians, and slaves. The Continental Army immediately takes control of the city.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: To the Last Extremity: The Battles for Charleston, 1776-1782, by Mark Maloy.
Online Recommendation of the Week: “The Evacuation of Charleston by the British in 1782” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1910: https://archive.org/details/jstor-27575255
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In 1782 and 1783, as it becomes increasingly apparent that the British have agreed to leave the United States, loyalist officers like John Bacon of New Jersey and the Doan Brothers of Pennsylvania continue to fight. Bacon massacres sailors on Long Beach Island. The Doans rob county treasuries and steal horses. The patriots governments treat t hem as outlaws and hunt them down.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Annals of the Revolution: Or, A History of the Doans. by Henry Brooke (Read on Google Books).
Online Recommendation of the Week: “An Account of the Capture and Death of the Refugee John Bacon” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society: https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofnew01newj_2/page/150/mode/2up
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In the summer and fall of 1782, two expeditions of Butler's Rangers, supported by large numbers of Indian warriors attack American outposts in Kentucky and West Virginia. Daniel Boone in Kentucky and Ebenezer Zane in West Virginia fight desperately to fend off these attacks. George Rogers Clark leads a counter offensive into the Ohio territory. He expects support from the Continentals at for Pitt, but that support never arrives.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence, by Don Glickstein.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Betty Zane, by Zane Grey: https://archive.org/details/bettyzane00greyrich
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