American Revolution in the Hudson Valley

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August 2000

Compiled by Alan Aimone

AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY

WESTCHESTER, ROCKLAND, ORANGE, PUTNAM, DUTCHESS, ULSTER, GREEN, RENSELLAER AND ALBANY COUNTIES – NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY TO ALBANY COUNTY INCLUDING CONTINENTAL ARMY HUDSON VALLEY SERVICES OF HUDSON VALLEY NEW YORK UNITS

COLONIAL/AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA WEB SITES

*American Colonial Militia, 1606-1785. Militia treatises of

James B. Whisker, Professor of Political Science at

West Virginia University. Files can be viewed

on the web or downloaded in a variety of formats.

www.constitution.org/jw/jbwhisker.htm

*Archiving Early America

http://earlyamerica.com/

There is a section of advice on how to read 18th century documents.

Battle Road site and useful links to other sites.

www.ziplink.net/~mrkmcc/resources.htm

*Battles and skirmishes – over 2,600 cites with references.

Also transcriptions of primary materials.

http://www.281.com/robertson/battles/battlemenu.htm

Brigade of the American Revolution

18th Century re-enactment organization

http://www.brigade.org

British, German and Loyalist officers serving in America in 1782, arranged by regiments and including staff officers:

www.fortunecity.com/lavender/pimlico/20/britmil.txt

Chronology of major events in literature, theater, politics, science, religion, music, and art

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Chron/

*Costumer’s Manifesto”

www.costumes.org

18th Century maps; some images may be copyrighted:

www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park

http://www.nps.gov/gero

George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress (1741-1799).

http//lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html

The 147,000 photographic images has been organized into eight series that you can search by keyword or browse with a hyperlinked series list. Successive pages are linked, allowing you to read complete documents and journals.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library’s catalog at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia. The library has some popular finding aids on the web – just choose Library to get to the Library’s offerings:

http://www.history.org

Johnson, Samuel Dictionary of the English language

www.hti.umich.edu/english/hohnson/main.html

This site has a search engine which allows many types of searches.

*Military actions of the American Revolution

http://www.sar.org/history/docsbatt.htm

Military documents including extracts from diaries and journals written during the American Revolution

www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/Documents/War/index.htm

Military history: American Revolution (1775-1783)

http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/usrev.html

Primary source documents pertaining to early American history – formation of American politics, culture, and ideas.

www.universitylake.org/primarysources.html

Schwalm Historical Association. Johannes Schwalm Historical Association promotes German culture as well as German military involvement during the American Revolutionary War.

http://pages.prodigy.net/halschwalm/jshahome.html

*Sites:

Concord Museum

http://www.concordmuseum.org/

Fort Ticonderoga

http://www.neinfo.net/New_England/New_York/attrations’

Saratoga National Park

http://www.nps.gov/sara/sara.htm

Washington Crossing Historic Park

http://www.spiritof76.com;wchp/

Historic Valley Forge

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/

Yorktown

http://www.williamsburg.com/york/york.html

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

765.494.4135; e-mail:

*War of 1812 Website

http://www.militaryheritage.com/1812.htm

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