The American Revolution

This is a blog on all things American Revolution. I will post information on people, places, battles and skirmishes.

13 February 2015

Testing the Batteries: The British Sail Up the Hudson River

On 12 July 1776, two British ships, the 40-gun Phoenix and the 20-gun Rose , along with the schooner Tryal and two tenders, took advanta...

15 August 2013

Stephen Kemble: A Jersey Boy in the British Army

Stephen Kemble, the fifth child of Peter Kemble and his first wife, Gertrude Bayard, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in...

18 January 2013

Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence representing New Jersey - Part 5

JOHN WITHERSPOON John Witherspoon was born on 5 February 1723 in Gifford, Scotland to a family with tradit...

09 January 2013

NJ Before the Revolution

This post in an adaptation of the rough draft of the introduction to my work on New Jersey in the Revolution. European exploration of N...

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