Fort Laurens, 1778-1779

Introduction

In the popular mind, the American War of Independence was largely confined to the seaboard colonies. Even scholarly treatments of the war sometimes fall into the error of slighting the great border wars along the colonial frontier. Yet one has only to glance through the voluminous correspondence of the Revolutionary generation or the records of Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania and the other provinces with frontier lands to recognize the importance that contemporaries attached to events in the outposts of American settlement...