My favorite Colonels.

14 August 1765. Boston. Andrew Oliver, Lt. Governor Thomas Hutchinson’s brother-in-law, was commissioned stamp master to administer the unpopular Stamp Act in Massachusetts. Rumors that Hutchinson was behind the appointment were later proved to be false and Oliver was privately

Christian is the chairman for the Board of Directors of the Dr. Joseph Warren Foundation and I'm a member of the board. As he said, we are working on a documentary about Dr. Warren based on his book "Founding Martyr." We are very excited about this project! You can view the trailer at

Happy Friday! "The Battle of Guilford Courthouse" by Don Troiani. And Huzzah for Colonel William Washington and his 3rd Continental Light Dragoons!

This info marker on the East Trail at the Camden Battlefield says it all about Gates.

The twelve unknown Continental soldiers found at the Camden Battlefield in South Carolina, who died in battle on August 16, 1780. Their remains laid in shallow graves on the battlefield for 242 years until they were discovered in the fall of 2022. They were reinterred with full

17 August 1772. Coventry, Rhode Island. The iron forge that Nathanael Greene’s father sent him to manage and operate burned to the ground. It was a personal and financial disaster as many families other than the Greenes were employed at the forge. Lotteries were the insurance

Who's in your Fab Four?

On October 7, 1774, John Adams, sitting in the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia, wrote to his friend, William Tudor. "They will not at this Session vote to raise Men or Money, or Arms or Ammunition. Their opinions are fixed against Hostilities and Ruptures, except they

Dr. Samuel Prescott was born on August 19, 1751. On 19 April 1775 about 1:00 am he encountered Paul Revere & William Dawes on the road to Concord outside of Lexington. When the British detained Revere and Dawes hid, Prescott carried on the ride to Concord to warn the British

19 August 1779. With Washington’s approval and under the stipulation that Lord Alexander Stirling had administrative power and his infantry used, Major Harry Lee led a successful raid on the British outpost at Paulus Hook, New Jersey on the Hudson River. Although Lee was awarded

On Monday, August 20, 1781 at 10:00 a.m. the vanguard of the Continental Army left White Plains, New York, crossed the Hudson River at King’s Ferry and began their joint Franco/American march toward Yorktown, Virginia with Rochambeau and Washington. Their destination was kept

August 1776. General Nathanael Greene was in command of the forts on Brooklyn Heights on Long Island. He fell critically ill and was confined to his bed with a raging fever just as fears of a British attack loomed. On the 17th, his aide William Livingston wrote to Washington, “I

21 August 1778. Rhode Island. After a battle with Admiral Richard Lord Howe's fleet and suffering severe storm damage, Admiral Comte d’Estaing informed General John Sullivan that he intended to sail to Boston for repairs. Sullivan and D'Estaing had planned a joint operation to

22 August 1776. New York Harbor. The British frigates Phoenix, Rose, and Greyhound with their sails spread open in the hot sun and back dropped by the green hills and meadows of Staten Island, weighed anchor and fell down The Narrows accompanied by two bomb ketches, the Carcass

In 1793, Anthony Wayne built a fort there he named Fort Greenville after his friend, General Nathanael Greene and the ensuing treaty after the Battle of Fallen Timbers was named for the same. Both Wayne and Greene were gifted plantations by the state of Georgia on the Savannah

23 August 1781. High Hills of Santee, South Carolina. Hearing that British Colonel Alexander Stewart was pressing 1,500 troops toward Orangeburg, South Carolina, Nathanael Greene called in the militia under Francis Marion and Andrew Pickens. The orders of the day dictated that

We at the Dr. Joseph Warren Foundation are very excited about the making of our documentary "Founding Martyr" about the life and times of Dr. Warren based on the book of the same name! There's lots to do and we can't wait to share it so keep an eye out! Huzzah!!

24 August 1777. For a month, the Continental Congress and the Continental Army had been waiting to discover General William Howe's destination by sea after leaving New York with his army on his brother Admiral Richard Howe's ships. When the news came that they had sailed up the

25 August 1777. After a month at sea, Admiral Richard Howe’s armada sailed up the Chesapeake Bay with 10,000 troops under the command of his brother William and disembarked at Head of Elk, Maryland. William Howe’s target was Philadelphia. On that day, George Washington, Nathanael