Detail from British Resentment or the French fairly Coopt at Louisbourg ,  Louis Pierre Boitard, 1755,  John Carter Brown Library of Earl...

Early last year, follower Tom Apple was reading through a post by Norman Fuss on The Journal of the American Revolution about a painting de...

Today's guest post comes from Christopher P. Magra , Professor of Early American History at the University of Tennessee and an expert on...

Deail from 'A view of the Endeavour's watering place in the Bay of Good Success, Tierra del Furgo, with natives. January 1769,...

Detail from  The Battle of Ouessan , James Gillray, 1790, Yale University Lewis Walpole Library . For as long as man has used gunpowder...

The Jovial Crew , Thomas Rowlandson, 1786, Royal Collection Trust . In his book The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy , N.A....