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Conflict & War

Francisco de Saavedra de Sangronis: A Spainard’s Pivotal Role in the Yorktown Triumph

by Richard J. Werther

Nowhere in the struggle that was the American Revolution was outside assistance more significant than at the siege of Yorktown during the autumn of...

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Interviews

September 10, 2025

This Week on Dispatches: Richard Gardiner on George Washington’s First Teacher

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR Contributor Richard Gardiner. For the last two centuries historians have speculated as to the identity...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

September 9, 2025

The Loyalist Who Gave Birth to His Nightmare

by Richard Briles Moriarty

As his London Packet approached the colonies in November 1774, Thomas Paine was not scanning for land. After turning northwards towards Philadelphia in Delaware...

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Autobiography and Biography

September 8, 2025

Mercy Scollay’s Quest for Custody of Joseph Warren’s Children

by Janet Uhlar

In the spring of 1775, after war broke out at Lexington and Concord, a British garrison in Boston was surrounded by militia troops from...

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Espionage and Cryptography

September 4, 2025

Culper Spy Austin Roe . . . the Joiner?

by Mark Sternberg

The Culper Spy Ring. An espionage network composed primarily of civilians funneling military intelligence to Gen. George Washington out of British-occupied New York City...

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