Molasses Act of 1733 – Explained
The Molasses Act of 1733 was a tax on imported sugar and molasses imposed by Great Britain in the Thirteen Colonies. The law targeted sugar and molasses from foreign sources,…
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Origins of the Continental Army
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
Continental Army Privates
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
How the Continental Army Moved
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
Hospitals and Prison Ships in the Continental Army
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
Distractions & Passing the Time in the Continental Army
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
Officers vs Privates in the Continental Army
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
Camp Duties in the Continental Army
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
How the Continental Army Armed Itself
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
Supplying the Continental Army
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
How the Continental Army was Maintained
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “The Private Soldier Under Washington” written by Charles Knowles Bolton in 1902. The book helps to explain the conditions…
Sensory Disorders (Sight, Sound, Taste, Touch) | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Intermittent Fevers and Agues | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Fainting Fits, Suffocation, & Intoxication | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Saving Dying Patients | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Cautions Concerning Cold Bathing & Drinking Mineral Water | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Appendix & Glossary | 18th Century Medicine
Chapters A List of Simples and of such Medicinal Preparations as ought to be kept in Readiness for private Practice. The Method of preparing and compounding such Medicines as are…
Treating Broken Bones | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Treating Dislocations | 1700s Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Female Health | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Childhood Diseases | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Venereal Disease | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Poisons | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Surgery | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Cancer and Scirrhus Carcinoma | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Nervous Disorders | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Constipation | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Apoplexy | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Asthma | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Scurvy | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Gout | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Dropsy (Edema) | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Jaundice | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Worm Infections | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Headaches | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Treating Bleeding/Blood Discharges | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Diabetes/Kidney Disorders | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Cholera Morbus (Vomiting, Diarrhoea) | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Stomach Inflammation | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Colds and Coughs | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Throat Inflammation | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Opthalmia (Eye Inflammation) | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Phrenitis (Brain Inflammation) | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Erysipelas (St. Anthony’s Fire) | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Measles | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Smallpox | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Remitting Fever | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Miliary Fever | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Spotted (Putrid) Fever | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Slow/Nervous Fever | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Consumptions (Wasting of the Body from Ulcers etc.) | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Peripneumony (Lung Inflammation) | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Pleurisy | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Treating Acute Continual Fever | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Treating Fevers | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Treatment of Diseases | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
The Common Evacuations | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Anger, Fear, Grief, Love | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Common Infections & Treatments | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
The Importance of Cleanliness | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Intemperance | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
The Importance of Proper Sleep and Clothing | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Health Issues Related to a Sedentary Lifestyle | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Air-Borne Diseases & Air Contamination | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Food-Borne Diseases | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
The Laborious, the Sedentary, and the Studious | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Children’s Health | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
Introduction | 18th Century Medicine
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from the book “Domestic Medicine” written by Dr. William Buchanan in 1785. It provides a fascinating insight into medical knowledge of the…
1783 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
1782 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
1780 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
1781 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
1779 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
1777 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
1778 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
1775 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
1776 Entries | James Thacher’s Military Journal
“ Editor’s note The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Thacher, a military surgeon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It provides a fascinating glimpse…
Appendix | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters Appendix A: journals The following list gives some information concerning all of the journals describing Arnold’s march through the wilderness or the siege of Quebec, the existence of which…
The Campaign Fails | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters Such were the gloomy prospects which General Thomas found awaiting him. Indeed, it seemed a foregone conclusion that his talents and energies could only find employment in directing a…
A Hopeless Siege | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters While these adventures were befalling the prisoners within the walls of Quebec, the siege obstinately maintained by a force too weak to assume the offensive dragged uneventfully on. Arnold’s…
Prisoners of War | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters Meanwhile, what was the fate of the four hundred unfortunate men who had survived the perils of the wilderness with Arnold, and the slaughter of the night assault with…
The Americans Stand Their Ground | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters The loss which the Americans sustained in killed, wounded and those taken prisoners, during the early hours of this most disastrous New Year’s Day, was so great that the…
The Death of Montgomery | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters But what had been the fortune of Montgomery’s attack at Prés de Ville? What was the meaning of the ominous delay in the appearance of the supporting force which…
The Assault on Quebec | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters The task that the Americans had set for themselves – so Arnold had written Washington on November 20 – could not be properly undertaken with less than twenty-five hundred…
The Assault Is Planned | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters On the 16th of December, a general council of war was held, and the voice of the majority was for storming the works as soon as the soldiers were…
The Investment | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters December 3 found the Americans cantoned from Pointe aux Trembles to old Lorette. They soon occupied, also, Beauport across the St. Charles, and “La Cardanière,” with headquarters at the…
Montgomery Joins Arnold | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters The situation of the Americans who besieged this fortress was critical. Their force was divided and those on the Quebec side of the river were too few to completely…
Before Quebec | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters At three o’clock on the afternoon of the 13th, another council of officers was held, and it was resolved to attempt to cross the St. Lawrence that night and…
Descending the Chaudière | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters On Saturday, November 4, the Abenaki savages, among them the dreaded Natanis and his brother Sabattis, in gorgeous finery, assembled at Colonel Arnold’s headquarters, about five miles below Sartigan,…
Arnold Saves the Remnant of His Army | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters Arnold, with his small escort, without a guide, their baggage lashed to their boats, started down the swollen flood of the Chaudière early on the morning of the 28th,…
Across the “Terrible Carry” | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters An eagle soaring above the forest-covered snow-whitened mountains of the Height of Land, the morning after this momentous 25th day of October, might have marked the relative positions of…
Flood, Famine, Desertion | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters To the south and west of the spruce bog at the last portage of the Twelve Mile carry, there was a natural meadow of great extent covered with long…
The March into the Wilderness | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters The Twelve Mile carrying place embraced in reality four distinct portages: The first lay W. N. W., three and one-quarter miles, along the side of a high hill, through…
The Ascent of the Kennebec | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters The 16th day of September being Sunday, the troops at Newburyport attended divine worship at Rev. Jonathan Parson’s meeting-house, or listened to their chaplain, Rev. Mr. Spring. The next…
The Expedition Sets Forth | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters The army gathered under Washington’s command at the siege of Boston numbered about eighteen thousand men, and was principally composed of New England volunteers. From this army it was…
Benedict Arnold | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters THE young officer entrusted with this responsible command was born at Norwich, Connecticut, January 14, 1741. He came of good stock, being a great-grandson of Benedict Arnold, the second…
The Invasion of Canada is Planned | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters When Benedict Arnold, turned traitor in the last years of the War of Independence, was leading the forces of the King against his former compatriots in Virginia, it is…
Introduction | Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec
Chapters There are several reasons why the Quebec expedition has never been given the place in history which it deserves. The rank and file who returned to tell the tale…
Why The British Army Lost the Revolutionary War
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from a book “The Organization of the British Army in the American Revolution” by Edward E. Curtis, Ph.D. It explains why the…
The British Army’s Transportation Problems
“ Editor’s note The following is a chapter from a book “The Organization of the British Army in the American Revolution” by Edward E. Curtis, Ph.D. It discusses some of…