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ARP322 Long Beach Island Massacre Aug 04, 2024

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In 1782 and 1783, as it becomes increasingly apparent that the British have agreed to leave the United States, loyalist officers like John Bacon of New Jersey and the Doan Brothers of Pennsylvania continue to fight. Bacon massacres sailors on Long Beach Island. The Doans rob county treasuries and steal horses. The patriots governments treat t hem as outlaws and hunt them down.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Annals of the Revolution: Or, A History of the Doans. by Henry Brooke (Read on Google Books).

Online Recommendation of the Week: “An Account of the Capture and Death of the Refugee John Bacon” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society: https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofnew01newj_2/page/150/mode/2up

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ARP321 Blue Licks & Fort Henry Jul 28, 2024

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In the summer and fall of 1782, two expeditions of Butler's Rangers, supported by large numbers of Indian warriors attack American outposts in Kentucky and West Virginia. Daniel Boone in Kentucky and Ebenezer Zane in West Virginia fight desperately to fend off these attacks. George Rogers Clark leads a counter offensive into the Ohio territory. He expects support from the Continentals at for Pitt, but that support never arrives.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence, by Don Glickstein.

Online Recommendation of the Week: Betty Zane, by Zane Grey: https://archive.org/details/bettyzane00greyrich

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ARP320 Treaty of Paris Jul 21, 2024

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American and British negotiators work out a final treaty. It gives the Americans most of what they want. France is frustrated that the Americans have worked out a deal before France could also agree to one.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-83, by Andrew Stockley.

Online Recommendation of the Week: The Treaty of Paris (1783) in a changing states system: papers from a conference, 1984: https://archive.org/details/treatyofparis1780000unse

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ARP319 Gibraltar Threatens Negotiations Jul 14, 2024

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John Jay takes a central role in negotiating peace with Britain after he loses trust that France will negotiate with America's interests in mind. France works with its ally Spain to retake Gibraltar, which Spain set as a condition for ending the war. At the same time, France tries to negotiate peace with Britain on its own terms.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Independence Through Prussian Eyes: A Neutral View of the Peace Negotiations of 1782-1783, by Martin L. Brown.

Online Recommendation of the Week: John Jay, by George Pellew: https://archive.org/details/johnjay00pell_2

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ARP318 Peace Negotiations Jul 07, 2024

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During the Summer of 1782, Both the British and American Delegations fight amongst themselves trying to decide what peace should look like. Arthur Lee tries to recall the American Peace Delegation. Charles James Fox undercuts the British government's efforts to negotiate. John Jay throws Franklin's plans into disarray.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence by Richard Morris

Online Recommendation of the Week: The Peace Negotiations of 1782 and 1783. An address delivered before the New York Historical Society: https://archive.org/details/peacenegotiation00jayj

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ARP317 Peace Commissioners Jun 30, 2024

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After the fall of Lord North's Government in Britain in early 1782, the new government under Lord Rockingham reaches out to Benjamin Franklin in Paris to discuss terms for a final peace. This began a protracted negotiation on the final terms of a treaty.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: A Diplomatic History of American Revolution, by Jonathan Dull.

Online Recommendation of the Week: The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, by Samuel Bemis: https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.214430

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ARP316 Skirmishing around Charleston Jun 23, 2024

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Through the spring and summer of 1782, British forces in Charleston under Alexander Leslie and Continental forces under Nathanael Greene skirmish with one another. Both sides recognize the end is near, but continue to fight over resources as they await a final end to the war.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Last Man To Die in the American Revolution: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Laurens, by Harlow Giles Unger.

Online Recommendation of the Week: Website - RevolutionaryWar.us

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AR-SP25 This Fierce People Jun 16, 2024

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Author Alan Pell Crawford discusses his new book - This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South. We talk about why the war in the south seems to be less known, and why it was more of a civil war than we see in the north.

This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South,

by Alan Pell Crawford.

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ARP315 Evacuation of Savannah Jun 09, 2024

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Continental General Anthony Wayne struggles to keep an army in the field to challenge the British in Savannah. Finally, in July 1782, Britain abandons Savannah, returning complete control of Georgia to the patriots.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763–1789,

by Kenneth Coleman.

Online Recommendation of the Week: Evacuation of Savannah https://gasocietysar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Revolutionary-War-Savannah-Evacuation-1782-1.pdf

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ARP314 The Great Seal Jun 02, 2024

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After years of effort, Congress adopts the Great Seal in the summer of 1782. It also debates what to do about Vermont. French Minister Luzerne throws a huge party in Philadelphia to help with Franco-American relations in light of continuing money problems. George Washington adopts new badges for the army, including the Purple Heart.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Eagle and the Shield: A History of the Great Seal of the United States, by Richard S Patterson & Richardson Dougall (also available on Archive.org).

Online Recommendation of the Week: Great Seal: greatseal.com

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