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American Revolution 1775-1783
All about the American Revolution from battles
and commanders to documents and timeline.
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American Revolutionary War Reenactment
organization
Field Guide has drawings of Continental forces
uniforms
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Westward Expansion / Frontier:
On 23 Feb. 1779 General George Rogers Clark
(older brother of William Clark of William and
Clark fame) commands 127 Americans, including
Daniel Morgan Wilcoxson (Peter II Vardeman's
maternal Grandfather) to attack Fort Vincennes
throughout the night. British Commander Henry
Hamilton surrendered on 25 Feb.
Chillicothe, Indian Territory is home to 3,000
Shawnee led by Blackfish. On 29 May 1779 the
Virginia Militia descend on the Shawnee village
in revenge for the siege of Fort Boonesborough
the previous fall 1778. Blackfish is killed and
his adopted son, Tecumseh (age 11), later rises
to lead his people in the fight to reclaim the
frontier. (See 1792).
Daniel Boone returns to Kentucky with his
family in Fall 1779 and settle at Boones
Station.
Sources:
American Battlefield Trust: Siege of
Fort Vincennes
This website includes maps, charts, graphs, and
summaries of battles in the American Revolution,
War of 1812, and the Civil War.
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
This 2018 four-episode, high-quality
documentary offered on Amazon Prime or the
History Channel is well worth watching. The
episode titled "Into the Wilderness" covers the
time period from 1773-1783. It compares and
contrasts the frontiersmen's efforts led by
Daniel Boone to fight off the Native Americans
led by Chief Black Fish, allies of the British,
during the American Revolution. It ends with the
Treaty of Paris signed in 1783 where
the British conceded control from the
Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River.
Although the British surrendered, the Native
Americans did not.
My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper
Interviews with Nathan Boone
This free ebook preview provides a major
portion of an interview of Nathan Boone, the
youngest son of frontiersman, Daniel Boone. He
and his wife recollect interesting stories they
knew about his father's exploits on the American
frontier.
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Antoine Lavoisier, French Chemist, Father
of Modern Chemistry (1743-1794)
"At the beginning of the American Revolutionary
conflict, all thirteen colonies had between them
only 80,000 pounds of gunpowder, a supply that
wouldn't last half a year of fighting.
Englishman, Joseph Priestly (see 1774) and
Frenchman Lavoisier's chemical revolution in
discovering oxygen and combustion, and Ben
Franklin's diplomatic skills ultimately turned
the tide as Lavoisier's innovations in gunpowder
production gave the French a stockpile of
top-quality powder and the colonies imported 200
tons in late 1776 and 800 tons by 1779."
Johnson, Steven. The Invention of Air.
New York: Riverhead, 2008.
