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Military History

Colonial Canandaigua In War And Peace

January 14, 2021 by Brian Barrett 1 Comment

typical Native American villageNew York’s Finger Lakes Region was well known to many Revolutionary War veterans as a place of both strife and potential. Strife because of conflict with Indigenous people, and great potential for lush productive farmland.

Soldiers witnessed both ends of the spectrum first-hand. [Read more…] about Colonial Canandaigua In War And Peace

Filed Under: History, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: American Revolution, AmRev, Canandaigua, Finger Lakes, Haudenosaunee, Lake Ontario, Military History, Native American History, Ontario County, Phelps and Gorham Tract, Sullivan_Clinton Expedition, Treaty of Canandaigua

Napoleon’s Private Parts On Fifth Avenue: A Cautionary Tale

January 10, 2021 by Jaap Harskamp 5 Comments

The Field of WaterlooThe culture of ancient Rome banned the moving or dividing of corpses. Christians of the third and fourth centuries maintained the desire for proper burial. A call for corporeal integrity runs throughout medieval culture. Bodies intact were ready for the Last Judgment when soul and body were reunited. [Read more…] about Napoleon’s Private Parts On Fifth Avenue: A Cautionary Tale

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: art, Manhattan, Medical History, Military History

Expanded Purple Heart Hall of Honor Reopens

December 27, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Purple Heart Hall of HonorThe National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in Orange County, NY reopened on Veterans Day after a $17 million expansion during the last year. [Read more…] about Expanded Purple Heart Hall of Honor Reopens

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Military History, Orange County

Saratoga Soldier Played Key Role in Tojo’s Capture

December 25, 2020 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast, Chris Carola, a veteran Associated Press reporter, tells the story of Jack Wilpers, who grew up in Saratoga Springs, and the key role Wilpers played in the capture of former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo in 1945. Carola is writing a book on the subject. [Read more…] about Saratoga Soldier Played Key Role in Tojo’s Capture

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Military History, Podcasts, Saratoga, Saratoga County

George Washington At Christmas

December 24, 2020 by James F. Sefcik Leave a Comment

George Washington and Family by Thomas Pritchard Rossiter, 1858-1860Christmas conjures up images of festivity, family, and especially sumptuous dinners but it wasn’t that way for George Washington during the Revolutionary War. He served as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from May 1775 to December 1783 or about 104 months.

During that time, he visited his beloved Mount Vernon just once, in 1781 following the victory at Yorktown before returning to his home for good in 1783. [Read more…] about George Washington At Christmas

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: AmRev, Christmas, George Washington, Holidays, Military History, winter

The Life and Death of a Saratoga County Patriot

December 22, 2020 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Daguerreotype believed to be the image of Uriah Gregory near the end of his lifeThe last week of the year 1843 was a difficult time for Ballston farmer Uriah Gregory. On December 29th Uriah lost his beloved wife, Tamer, his partner of more than sixty-five years, with whom he shared a life in the earliest days of the new nation. [Read more…] about The Life and Death of a Saratoga County Patriot

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Ballston Spa, Battle of Saratoga, Military History, Saratoga, Saratoga County, Saratoga County History Center, Saratoga County History Roundtable

A New Edition of Francis Whiting Halse’s Upstate NY History Published

December 21, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

americas first frontierBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

America’s First Frontier: New York’s Pioneers and Their Fight for Freedom (2020 Reprint by HVA Press) recalls settlers in Upstate New York who sometimes faced hunger and disease, in addition to their ongoing conflicts with resident Native Americans, the French and later British loyalists. Author Francis Whiting Halsey was born in Unadilla, New York in 1851 and graduated Cornell University in 1873. He as an editor at the Binghamton Times (1873–1875) and New York Tribune (1875–1880). [Read more…] about A New Edition of Francis Whiting Halse’s Upstate NY History Published

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: American Revolution, Books, Cultural History, French And Indian War, Military History, Native American History, Political History

A First World War Holiday Miracle

December 14, 2020 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

World War One poster Exaggerating the quickness of the war's end Call it an antiquarian newspaper holiday miracle.

“Rather a peculiar thing happened a few days ago,” Lieutenant Howard Smith of Hudson Falls wrote his mother from a military hospital in France on December 26th, 1918. “One of the orderlies of this ward found a picture of me in The Post-Star while he was in another ward. It was an account of my getting a Boche.” [Read more…] about A First World War Holiday Miracle

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Christmas, Glens Falls, Holidays, Hudson Falls, Military History, Warren County, World War One

A Military Cemetery Mystery Solved

December 8, 2020 by Jeannie Brennan - Constance Brennan Barone Leave a Comment

Hawkins tombstoneTiming is everything! While contemplating a unique marker in the Sackets Harbor military cemetery a puzzling question came up. Why was Henderson, NY resident Joseph Hawkins, who never served in the military, buried in the military cemetery?

Coincidentally, Henderson Historical Society’s Eric Anderson was simultaneously researching Joseph Hawkins and shared clues. [Read more…] about A Military Cemetery Mystery Solved

Filed Under: History, Western NY Tagged With: Cemeteries, Great Lakes, Jefferson County, Maritime History, Military History, Political History, Sackets Harbor

The 3rd New Jersey Greys In New York

December 6, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

3rd New Jersey in New-YorkBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

The new book The 3rd New Jersey in New-York: Stories from “The Jersey Greys” of 1776 (Continental Consulting, 2020) by Philip Weaver is the culmination of over 35 years of primary source research. The book includes reworked material previously published in The Brigade Dispatch and the on-line magazine Journal of the American Revolution. [Read more…] about The 3rd New Jersey Greys In New York

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, Capital-Saratoga, History, Mohawk Valley, New York City Tagged With: AmRev, Books, Military History

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