Award-winning author of historical fiction with a dash of sci-fi. My blog, Yankee Doodle Spies, profiles the people, places & things of the Revolutionary War.
5 Dec 1778 Continental Congress approves disgraced Gen Charles Lee’s court-martial sentence & relieves him of command for a year. #RevWar#History#AmRev
3 Dec 1776 The Continental Army struggles into Trenton, NJ & prepares boats to cross the roiling waters of the Delaware R. to PA. Gen Washington seized every boat for 40 miles along the river to prevent a British pursuit. #RevWar#History#AmRev
3 Dec 1773 Charleston’s first "tea party" took place 13 days before the more famous one in Boston. Charlestonians called a meeting and agreed not to purchase the tea. They unloaded it &stored it in the Exchange building vice dumping it into the harbor. #RevWar#History#AmRev
1 Dec 1775 A column of 300 men under Gen Richard Montgomery sails down the St Lawrence R. to reinforce Col Benedict Arnold at Point aux Trembles. In winter cold & short on supply & men, the rebel siege of Quebec is about to begin - with only 800 men. #RevWar#History#AmRev
27 Nov 1778 British Carlisle Commission, headed by the Earl of Carlisle, sails home from NYC having failed to achieve a negotiated peace settlement by offering self-rule & parliamentary representation vs independence to colonies. #RevWar#History#AmRev