Rev War Tales World Turned Upside Down 19 October 1781, Yorktown, Virginia. Brigadier General Charles O’Hara surrenders Lord Cornwallis’s army; some 7,000–8,000 British and Hessian troops march into captivity, ending the war’s last great campaign in America. On 19 October 1781, with Cornwallis pleading illness, Brigadier General Charles O’Hara led the garrison out of Yorktown between lines of French and American troops. He offered the sword first to Rochambeau, who directed him to Washington; Washington, in turn, had Major General Benjamin Lincoln accept it. About 7,200 soldiers and hundreds of sailors laid down their arms. Siege losses are commonly given as roughly 150–160 British killed and 300-plus wounded, about 60 French killed and nearly 200 wounded, and some 80–90 Americans killed and 300 wounded. The capitulation did not instantly end all fighting, but it broke British will in the main theater and made peace—and American independence—inevitable. #RevWar #History #AmRev #RevWarTales

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Rev War Tales The Association 20 October 1774, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The First Continental Congress adopted the Continental Association, a colony-wide ban on trade with Britain in protest of the Coercive Acts. On 20 October 1774, delegates from twelve colonies signed the Continental Association, a compact calling for non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation. Imports from Britain and Ireland were to stop on 1 December 1774; exports would follow later if grievances went unanswered. Local committees were to enforce the boycott. The measure responded to the Coercive—or “Intolerable”—Acts, which had closed Boston’s port and altered Massachusetts government after the Tea Party. Framed as a peaceful economic weapon while still professing loyalty to the king, the Association united the colonies in a common policy and created enforcement networks that became revolutionary infrastructure. Britain did not yield; within months, the dispute moved from trade to arms. #RevWar #History #AmRev #RevWarTales

America 250 Mega Deal! The price of the series' inaugural novel is now at its lowest. Paperback cut to $12.76! Kindle is now just $3.76! Audible is $7.76! Let the spirit of 76 provide you with your first journey into the American Revolution as you've never experienced it. Go to Amazon and click today! The Patriot Spy is the introductory book in the Yankee Doodle Spies series, an informative and entertaining ride through the American Revolutionary War. In the midst of the battle for New York, General George Washington taps Lieutenant Jeremiah Creed and his band of spies to penetrate British lines in a desperate gambit to save the Continental Army. amazon.com/Patriot-Spy-S-W-O…

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Exciting late-summer Sci-Fi read! Take a Leap from 1959 to the year 802 with Envoy of the Lord in paperback. 1959 Ottawa: A top-secret Canadian Cold War program sends an ex-soldier on a time journey meant to counter the Soviets. Instead, he travels to the time of Charlemagne, where he faces a menace greater than Soviet expansion. A dark land of conspiracy, heresies, bloodthirsty Avars, and vicious Saxon tribes awaits him. Can the Envoy of the Lord save Christendom? amazon.com/Envoy-Lord-S-W-OC…

Rev War Tales Brooklyn Blues 28 August 1776, Brooklyn, New York. With the Continental Army pressed back against the East River after the previous day’s defeat, General George Washington ordered additional reinforcements to cross to Long Island. Among them was Colonel John Glover’s regiment of Marblehead fishermen (pictured) from Massachusetts. Washington also directed Major General William Heath to collect every available boat and barge for transport. Small skirmishes continued along the outer defensive lines as afternoon rain began to fall, setting the stage for the army’s critical next moves. #History #AmRev #RevWar #RevWarTales

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Missi Dominici Faithless Friuli 776. Friuli, Northern Italy. While Charlemagne still fought to hold Saxony after the 775 campaign, Duke Hrodgaud of Friuli revolted. Left in office after the 774 conquest of the Lombard kingdom, he broke faith, threatened Frankish control of northern Italy, and Pope Hadrian I linked him to a wider Lombard-Byzantine plot. Charlemagne crossed the Alps in early 776, moved on Vicenza and Treviso, and crushed the revolt. Hrodgaud was killed. The king kept Easter at Treviso on 14 April, seized rebel cities, confiscated estates, and installed Frankish counts. He replaced the former duke with Marcarius and recast the frontier as the March of Friuli. The swift, personal intervention showed that Italy would not be a distant, loosely held prize but a core Carolingian realm, garrisoned and administered on Frankish lines. Resistance in the northeast was broken at once, and the peninsula remained firmly within the growing empire. #History #DarkAges #Medieval #MissiDominici

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Don't just celebrate America 250, re-live it! Skirmisher Publishing has a special pre-release offer on its latest role-playing game, "Patriot Spies." This fun, factual romp through Revolutionary War espionage was inspired by and drawn from my Yankee Doodle Spies series, with its initial scenarios set in and around New York City in 1776. Now you can join historical and fictional characters who struggle in the shadows as America fights for independence. Jeremiah Creed, Major Sandy Drummond, Emily Stanley, and Colonel Fitzgerald are part of your world as you are sent on harrowing missions. This game comes with TWO books: The "Patriot Spies" rules book and the "Hither and Thither" scenarios book. My readers (you) may download a copy at the special price of $4.99 as part of the America 250 offer before the regular price ($14.95) kicks in. Order now at: drivethrurpg.com/en/product/…

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America 250 Mega Deal! The price of the series' inaugural novel is now at its lowest. Paperback cut to $12.76! Kindle is now just $3.76! Audible is $7.76! Let the spirit of 76 provide you with your first journey into the American Revolution as you've never experienced it. Go to Amazon and click today! The Patriot Spy is the introductory book in the Yankee Doodle Spies series, an informative and entertaining ride through the American Revolutionary War. In the midst of the battle for New York, General George Washington taps Lieutenant Jeremiah Creed and his band of spies to penetrate British lines in a desperate gambit to save the Continental Army. amazon.com/Patriot-Spy-S-W-O…

Rev War Tales The King’s Grant 18 June 1778, St. James’s Palace in London. King George III granted royal assent to a Treasury warrant authorizing payment of £27,457 12s 1½d to contractors Arnold Nesbitt, Adam Drummond, and Moses Franks. These prominent London merchants and politicians held the vital contract to victual British forces in North America. Amid the ongoing Revolutionary War—following France’s entry into the conflict—this payment covered provisions already delivered to sustain the army under Generals Howe and Clinton. The transaction underscored Britain’s massive logistical effort to feed and supply tens of thousands of troops across the Atlantic, an enormous financial burden that strained the royal treasury as the war expanded into a global contest. #RevWar #AmRev #History #RevWarTales

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