Growing up, I wasn’t particularly interested in the American Revolutionary War. I spent most of my youth living in Texas, Tennessee or Kansas and so the U.S. Civil War (usually from the Confederate perspective) was predominant in my studies of history. At this late stage, it is difficult to recall which aspects of the 1775-1783 conflict I learned first at school or from stamps. During … Continue reading The Battle of Newtown in General Sullivan’s Scorched Earth Campaign