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Originally Posted by gizamo
"Patriot Riflemen During the Ammunition Crisis at the Siege of Boston" in 1775 by Hugh Harrington
Hugh T. Harrington is an independent researcher living in Georgia.
Without the Rifleman units from Pennsylvania, the fledgling Revolution might have ended in Boston.
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Riflemen 1775
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Gizamo - I am delighted that you like that article. The latest "Journal of Military History" [Oct. 2010] has an article of mine on Timothy Murphy at Saratoga. In that article I believe I conclusively prove that Murphy did not kill Simon Fraser. I traced the "history" of the Murphy story and unfortunately it originated in the 1850's - in his own lifetime Murphy was not credited with making the shot. Historians have simply parrotted the Murphy story for 150 years. Also, there is the question of ballistics of a roundball at great distances and the unsurmountable problems with making such a shot which apparently had not been considered before.
But! History is never set in stone - it is constantly evolving as new information comes to light or we see old information in new ways.
Hugh Harrington