The Battle of Brooklyn, fought on August 27, 1776, was the first full-scale land battle of the Revolutionary War. It was also a disaster that nearly destroyed George Washington’s army only weeks after the Declaration of Independence. Yet J. Michael Phelps argues that the battle has not simply been misunderstood. It has been only half […]
Category: Research Library
A New French View of the Chesapeake, 1781
A rare French eyewitness account of the Battle of the Chesapeake is now available as a digital surrogate on The Field, the digital archive of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati. The unpublished 185-page naval journal was kept aboard the ship Auguste, an eighty-gun ship of the line serving in the […]
Introducing Our New Digital Archives and Library Catalog
In February, we reached a major milestone: the American Revolution Institute’s new digital archive and library collections platform is now live. This launch matters because the Institute’s headquarters is home to one of the world’s greatest collections of books and manuscripts on the history of the Revolutionary War, as well as a research library on […]