Revolutionary War Leaders
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Donald MacDonald
A career army officer, Donald MacDonald fought in the 1746 Battle of Culloden on the side of the Crown. In the summer of 1775, MacDonald left...
Joseph Reed
Joseph Reed was a colonel and adjutant-general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He was a trusted aide to General George...
Thomas Conway
Thomas Conway is known as an officer with a name most connected to American Revolutionary War historiography with the loosely defined cabal that...
Carl Ulrich von Donop
Carl Ulrich von Donop was a Hessian colonel who served with the British Army during the American Revolution. Born into a noble family in Hesse-Kassel...
Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox
VIDEO | In 1780, when the British took Charleston, it looked as if the rest of South Carolina might end up in Loyalist hands. But a band of Patriot...
John Harris Cruger
John Harris Cruger was born on December 25, 1737, to a well-established New York merchant family in Jamaica. Cruger was likely educated at King's...
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