Mutiny on the South Branch
. Sometimes telling the story steals the fun of discovery. . We have learned the hard way what most established historians know. At some...
GW orders Dr. Thomas Walker
We continue our weekly series examining 1757 during Washington's days of headquartering in Winchester VA. and his network of frontier...
Bad Boy Recruiter Denis McCarty leads a short brutish life
Denis McCarty offered the deserters a chance to enlist in the Royal American Regiment. He recruited men out of the Virginia Regiment to...
Loudoun wonders if GW is a Traitor?
You see Loudoun this, Loudoun that ---- everywhere in this area of Winchester and northern Virginia. And then you find out that Fort...
Gnadenhutten
Gnadenhutten and Allemangel. Imagine the massacre of a place meaning Log Tabernacle or Tents of Grace whose survivors ran to a land,...
Attacks 1755-1756
April SPRINGTIME IS WAR TIME HELL’S VENGEANCE CYCLE begins every Spring . by Jim Moyer compiled in 2015, updated 3/6/2017, 4/2/2017,...
Two letters - 27 Dec 1756 and 31 Dec 1756
There are 2 letters by the two of the most powerful people in Virginia writing to our Colonel George Washington on those 2 dates noted...
Christmas 1755 Winchester VA
How did our Captain George Mercer in Winchester VA spend his Christmas in 1755? . Fort Loudoun construction will not start until May 18,...
Powder Horns
Powder Horns: . Did the Virginia Regiment carry both belly cartouches and powder horns? . Washington writes December 4, 1756: . "I beg...
Andrew Lewis's fort for the Cherokee
The reconstructed Fort Loudoun in Tennessee is not the same one built by Andrew Lewis in 1756 . The fort built by Lewis was about 7 miles...
