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The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a great summary of those events.
For more on this topic, get a copy of Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era, by Glenn Williams (available in paper, Kindle, or audio versions).
You can also listen to my summary of the war in Episode 44: https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/05/episode-044-lord-dunmores-war.html
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In 1783, General Henry Knox proposes the establishment of a private organization for Continental officers called The Society of the Cincinnati. National leaders see the new group as a threat trying to undermine freedom and self-government.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America, by Markus Hünemörder .
Online Recommendation of the Week: Society of the Cincinnati: https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org
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In November, 1783, Washington takes leave of his officers and the army after the British Depart New York. Washington makes his way to Annapolis to resign. Congress misses the arrival of the Dutch Ambassador and scrambles to get the final peace treaty ratified while accepting Washington's resignation. Finally a civilian, Washington arrives home at Mount Vernon on Christmas Eve, 1783.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783, by Stanley Weintraub.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Washington’s Resignation Speech December 23, 1783 https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/pdf/webversion.pdf
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Although parties had established a preliminary peace treaty in 1782, the process of moving the British army and loyalist civilians out of New York took well over a year. General Guy Carleton remained concerned about leaving behind any loyalists who might suffer the wrath of their neighbors for loyalty to the crown.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Guy Carleton: A Biography, by Paul R. Reynolds
Online Recommendation of the Week: A Tory-Eye View of the Evacuation of New York, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23174025
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The Powder Alarm resulted from a British raid in September, 1774 to capture powder from a local storage site. It made clear that the patriots needed better intelligence and a better rapid response system to challenge the British soldiers.
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Although major operations of the war ended in 1781, it took several more years before negotiators could work out a peace treaty. The American Peace Commissioners bickered with one another, and had to navigate French diplomacy and British politics to reach a final deal. On September 3, 1783, all parties signed Peace treaties in Paris, formally agreeing to the terms that would end the war.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Treaty of Paris: The Precursor to a New Nation, by Edward Renehan (borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: “Definitive Treaty of Peace between the United States and Great Britain, 3 September 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-40-02-0356
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In June of 1783, British forces (not yet aware of the preliminary peace treaty that had been concluded in late 1782) attacked the Indian town of Cuddalore. The British besiege the city while a French fleet challenges a larger British fleet from control of the waters off the city. The British Commander, General James Stuart, finds himself fighting not only the French and Mysore, but also finds himself at odds with the British Governor who controlled the region for the East India Company.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Suffren Versus Hughes: War in the Indian Ocean 1781-1783, by Quinton Barry.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Siege of Cuddalore (1783) https://www.ripublication.com/ijhss/ijhssv5n1_09.pdf
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In the summer of 1783, disgruntled Continental soldiers march on Philadelphia, forcing Congress to flee to Princeton. Washington sends the majority of the Army home, keeping only a few hundred men.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years after Yorktown, 1781-1783, by William H. Fowler, Jr.
Online Recommendation of the Week: New Light on the Philadelphia Mutiny of 1783: Federal-State Confrontation at the Close of the War for Independence http://www.jstor.org/stable/20091201 or https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/43383/43104
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British agent James Logan Colbert raises a force of western loyalists and Chickasaw Indians to attack a Spanish outpost on the Arkansas River. The Spanish garrison manages to chase off the attackers, but not before the sack the village and take prisoners.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: James Colbert and His Chickasaw Legacy, by Stephen L. Kling Jr.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Arkansas Post Story: https://archive.org/details/arkansaspoststor00cole
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The Continental Congress struggles in late 1782 and early 1783 to find a way to pay the army and its creditors for the cost of the war. It's inability to levy taxes, or convince the states to pay, results in a financial crisis. Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris, announces his retirement. Word of the Treaty of Paris forces Congress to act.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution, by David Head.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Robert Morris and Reporting for the Treasury Under the U.S. Continental Congress: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40698202
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In early 1783, all Americans await the arrival of an expected peace treaty. The Continental Officers, afraid that they will be sent home without any pay and their promised pensions, organize to challenge Congress. General Washington manages to talk down his officers and save the country from a military coup.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Swords in Their Hands: George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy, by Dave Richards.
Online Recommendation of the Week: THE LAST OFFICIAL ADDRESS, OF HIS EXCELLENCY General WASHINGTON, TO THE Legislatures of the United States https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.12024/N14414/N14414.html
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After a few final skirmishes, the British army evacuates Charleston, SC in December 1782. They take with them thousands of loyalist militia, civilians, and slaves. The Continental Army immediately takes control of the city.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: To the Last Extremity: The Battles for Charleston, 1776-1782, by Mark Maloy.
Online Recommendation of the Week: “The Evacuation of Charleston by the British in 1782” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1910: https://archive.org/details/jstor-27575255
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In 1782 and 1783, as it becomes increasingly apparent that the British have agreed to leave the United States, loyalist officers like John Bacon of New Jersey and the Doan Brothers of Pennsylvania continue to fight. Bacon massacres sailors on Long Beach Island. The Doans rob county treasuries and steal horses. The patriots governments treat t hem as outlaws and hunt them down.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Annals of the Revolution: Or, A History of the Doans. by Henry Brooke (Read on Google Books).
Online Recommendation of the Week: “An Account of the Capture and Death of the Refugee John Bacon” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society: https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofnew01newj_2/page/150/mode/2up
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In the summer and fall of 1782, two expeditions of Butler's Rangers, supported by large numbers of Indian warriors attack American outposts in Kentucky and West Virginia. Daniel Boone in Kentucky and Ebenezer Zane in West Virginia fight desperately to fend off these attacks. George Rogers Clark leads a counter offensive into the Ohio territory. He expects support from the Continentals at for Pitt, but that support never arrives.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence, by Don Glickstein.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Betty Zane, by Zane Grey: https://archive.org/details/bettyzane00greyrich
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American and British negotiators work out a final treaty. It gives the Americans most of what they want. France is frustrated that the Americans have worked out a deal before France could also agree to one.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-83, by Andrew Stockley.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Treaty of Paris (1783) in a changing states system: papers from a conference, 1984: https://archive.org/details/treatyofparis1780000unse
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John Jay takes a central role in negotiating peace with Britain after he loses trust that France will negotiate with America's interests in mind. France works with its ally Spain to retake Gibraltar, which Spain set as a condition for ending the war. At the same time, France tries to negotiate peace with Britain on its own terms.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Independence Through Prussian Eyes: A Neutral View of the Peace Negotiations of 1782-1783, by Martin L. Brown.
Online Recommendation of the Week: John Jay, by George Pellew: https://archive.org/details/johnjay00pell_2
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During the Summer of 1782, Both the British and American Delegations fight amongst themselves trying to decide what peace should look like. Arthur Lee tries to recall the American Peace Delegation. Charles James Fox undercuts the British government's efforts to negotiate. John Jay throws Franklin's plans into disarray.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence by Richard Morris
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Peace Negotiations of 1782 and 1783. An address delivered before the New York Historical Society: https://archive.org/details/peacenegotiation00jayj
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After the fall of Lord North's Government in Britain in early 1782, the new government under Lord Rockingham reaches out to Benjamin Franklin in Paris to discuss terms for a final peace. This began a protracted negotiation on the final terms of a treaty.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: A Diplomatic History of American Revolution, by Jonathan Dull.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, by Samuel Bemis: https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.214430
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Through the spring and summer of 1782, British forces in Charleston under Alexander Leslie and Continental forces under Nathanael Greene skirmish with one another. Both sides recognize the end is near, but continue to fight over resources as they await a final end to the war.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Last Man To Die in the American Revolution: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Laurens, by Harlow Giles Unger.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Website - RevolutionaryWar.us
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Author Alan Pell Crawford discusses his new book - This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South. We talk about why the war in the south seems to be less known, and why it was more of a civil war than we see in the north.
This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South,
by Alan Pell Crawford.
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