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- Firesides and Facts of the Revolution, by Mrs. E.P. Ellet
(Godey's, 1860)
- The Battle of Bunker Hill, by Horace Scudder
(Atlantic Monthly, 1875)
- The Concord Fight, by Frederic Hudson
(Harper's Monthly, 1875A)
- Echoes of Bunker Hill
(Harper's Monthly, 1875B)
- A discussion of the Battle of Bunker Hill and a look at the town today.
- How the "Margaretta" Was Captured 100 Years Ago, by George J. Varney
(St. Nicholas, 1875)
- The capture of a British schooner at the beginning of the American Revolution.
- The Battle of Long Island
(Harper's Monthly, 1876B)
- Virginia in the Revolution, by John Esten Cooke
(Harper's Monthly, 1876B)
- "The Star-Spangled Banner," by John C. Carpenter
(Century Magazine, 1894B)
- How the national anthem came to be written.
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- Captain Porter and the Essex, by S.G.W. Benjamin
(St. Nicholas, 1875)
- Subtitled "The First Battle of Admiral Farragut," this chronicles the battle between the American ship "Essex" and the British ships "Phoebe" and "Cherub."
- Early Victories of the US Navy, by Edgar S. Maclay
(Century Magazine, 1891A)
- Victories in the War of 1812.
- Laurels of the American Tar in 1812, by Edgar S. Maclay
(Century Magazine, 1891A)
- Notes on American seamanship and gunnery, the overweight of English-French metal, and the untrustworthiness of the English report of the "Shannon's" victory over the "Chesapeake."
- A Famous Sea-Fight
(St. Nicholas, 1882B)
- The fight between the American ship "Essex" and the British ships "Phoebe" and "Cherub" in the War of 1812.
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See the separate Civil War section.
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- New England Wars - King Philip, by Joseph Chandler, Esq.
(Godey's, 1833)
- The Aborigines and the Colonists, by Edward Eggleston
(Century Magazine, 1883B)
- Indian War in the Colonies, by Edward Eggleston
(Century Magazine, 1883B)
- A Scout with the Buffalo Soldiers, by Frederic Remington
(Century Magazine, 1889A)
- General Crook in the Indian Country, by Cpt. John G. Bourke
(Century Magazine, 1891A)
- Beseiged by the Utes, by LTC E.V. Sumner
(Century Magazine, 1891B)
- An account of an 1879 battle.
- General Mile's Indian Campaigns, by Major G.W. Baird
(Century Magazine, 1891B)
- Custer's Last Battle, by Cpt. E.S. Godfrey
(Century Magazine, 1892A)
- Besides the account of the battle itself, this has a very interesting section on the routines of cavalry patrols and encampments. It is followed by a commentary by General Fry.
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- Alone in Porto Rico: A War Correspondent's Adventure, by Edwin Emerson, Jr.
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
- America, Spain and France, by Emile Ollivier
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
- Some history behind the Spanish-American War.
- An Artist with Admiral Sampson's Fleet [in Cuba], by Walter Russell
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
- The Battle of Manila
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
- The destruction of the Spanish fleet described by eye-witnesses.
- Incidents of the Cuban Blockade, by Walter Russell
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
- Spain and Her American Colonies, by Theodore S. Woolsey
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
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- Origin of the Treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe, by M.S. Beach
(Scribner's, 1879A)
- The treaty that ended the Mexican War of 1846-1848.
- The "Wyoming" in the Straits of Shimonoseki
(Century Magazine, 1892A)
- The "Wyoming's" role in the Shimonoseki Campaign, a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, after the Japanese emperor issued the order to "expel the barbarians."
- A Controversy of the Mexican War, by John D. McPherson
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
- A comment on General Grant's memoirs regarding the causes of the Mexican War of 1846-1848
- See also:
- • The Civil War
- • Military History (non-US)
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