Leon ReedLeon Reed

Leon Reed is a historian who lives in Gettysburg. He is the author of the forthcoming “From Trenton to Eutaw Springs and Beyond: The Revolutionary War Adventure of Jermiah Lott.” He is a member of the Continental Congress Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Foreign help for the Revolution

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The most prominent statue in Lafayette Park, directly behind the White House, is the famous Andrew Jackson equestrian statue. But in each corner of the park, visitors will find statues of the Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, the Comte de Rochambeau, and Tadeusz Kościuszko. Two Frenchmen, one Prussian, and one Pole, they represent an

Cowpens: Best Day ever for the U.S. Army?

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 January 1781 didn’t seem like a promising time for the U.S. Army in South Carolina. In the previous year, the army of 5000 men defending Charleston had surrendered and another army had basically been destroyed at the Battle of Camden. For a time, guerrilla forces commanded by Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion and a few others

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