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.
18 Nov 1775 Fort Ninety-Six, SC. Col Patrick Cunningham’s 1,800 Loyalists invest the 600 rebels under Col Andrew Williamson. A desultory exchange of shots occurs over the next few days. #RevWar#History#AmRev
10 Nov 1781 Gen Arthur St Clair marches a division of Continental Army from Yorktown to reinforce Gen Nathanael Greene in NC. The Yorktown victory was not the end of the fighting. #RevWar#History#AmRev
9 Nov 1776 Most Gen Washington’s Continental Army crosses the North (Hudson) River for New Jersey. With the campaign for NY all but lost, the campaign for the Jerseys would soon commence. #RevWar#History#AmRev
4 Nov 1775 Continental Congress reorganizes the Continental Army at Boston into a force of 20,372 officers and men, the majority remaining in service only through 1776. #RevWar#History#AmRev
29 Oct 1776 Ft Lee, NJ Gen Nathanael Greene, commander of Forts Lee & Washington, pens letter to Gen Washington listing supplies needed & costs & suggesting places between Fort Lee & Philadelphia to store them. #RevWar#History#AmRev