Does your book provide any new contributions to our understanding of history? In Honor and Valor, I divide the contributions to historical understanding into two categories:
Honor and Valor – Historical Insights
An Even Better Milestone
First and foremost, I hope you all healthy and coping as best as can be done given the coronavirus pandemic. Thank you to all of you who bought and read my first book, The War has Begun. I have sincerely appreciated your support and reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. It has encouraged me to not…
A Worthy Milestone to Report
At long last, I've finished the draft of "Honor and Valor". Let the editing begin.
Memorial Day Tribute to Five of a 40-Man Scout
"a Scout of 40 men under Command of Capt. fry of Colo. Scammels Regt. was Surpris'd By a Body of Indians & others Consisting in the whole of about 300. we Lost out our scout 9 men kild & taken--"
Progress update 3/12/2019
Nearly two years ago, I published "The War has Begun". Six months later I began writing "Honor and Valor" ...
Freeman’s Farm: The more I read …
Do the math: In the Battle of Freeman's Farm, the Americans fired upwards of 60,000 bullets and maybe 1,000 found an enemy soldier. The British fired about the same number and only hit half as many Americans.
KVCR 91.9 – KVC Arts Interview
It is really nice when your hometown Library, the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands, takes great care of you. They invited me to give a presentation on the research behind The War has Begun, and to promote the presentation they arranged for
Here's a great article, following up on the intersection of Joseph Gray's narrative and the Van Veghton family's accounts of the New Hampshire Continental troops assisting in the evacuation of Schaghticoke, NY in August of 1777. I am re-writing that part of Book 2 in Duty in the Cause of Liberty for the third time…
Schaghticoke in the American Revolution, Major VanVeghten scalped
Got to love the Internet for providing the basis to connect the threads of history! See my comment proposing the connecting the thread at the end.
Reflections on Josiah Parker
This Memorial Day, take some time to consider what you've learned from a Revolutionary War soldier who was killed or died while serving.
Duty in the Cause of Liberty 