Battle of Monmouth

Joseph Plumb Martin – The Soldier Who Told the Revolution from the Ranks

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In This Article His Story The Minister’s Son Who Wanted to Fight A Fifteen-Year-Old Goes to War The Disastrous New York Campaign Returning to the Continental Army Under Fire at Fort Mifflin Hunger at Valley Forge The Heat and Gunfire at Monmouth Faith, Providence, and the Hungry Soldier Digging Toward the British at Yorktown The … Read more

Anthony Gilman: The Black Revolutionary War Soldier Who Escaped Slavery

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In This Article His Story A Black Patriot in the Revolution A Fifer in the Continental Army The Battle of Harlem Heights The Battle of Monmouth Service with New Hampshire Troops Captured by the British Sold into Slavery Taken to Nova Scotia The Escape to Freedom The Contradictions of Liberty From His Account Military Service … Read more