Rare Legacy

04/18/2016

Rare Legacy is offering a rare collection of American Revolutionary War Comitia Americana medals! https://www.rarelegacy.com/collections/comitia-americana-1

03/29/2016

Talk about a long time coming !
George Washington appointed Israel Putnam commander of the US troops in New York March 29th 1776. Old Put as he was called served notably as an officer with during the French and Indian War. Mohawk warriors captured him, but he was saved from the ritual burning given to enemies by intervention of a French officer,
with whom the Mohawk were allied. ( see pic)

During the American Revolutionary War his reckless courage and fighting spirit became known far beyond Connecticut's borders through the circulation of folk legends in the American colonies and states celebrating his exploits.

Own a piece of French and Indian war history at https://www.rarelegacy.com/collections/historical-medals

03/26/2016

Check out the book that tells the entire story of the Charles III Spanish Indian Peace Medal .
http://www.amazon.com/Peace-Medals-Negotiating-Power-America/dp/0981979947/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459004805&sr=8-1&keywords=Peace+Medals%3A+Negotiating+Power+in+Early+America

“Peace and Friendship.” This noble phrase, emblazoned on the back of silver peace medals given by American presidents to chiefs of important tribes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is also a glorified representation of the real interactions between the American or Europea...

03/26/2016

Speaking of the Louisiana Territory prior to the US acquisition the territory was controlled by the Spanish and the French. The Spanish made alliance with the Native Americans in the territories. This is an Indian Peace Medal that was used by the Spanish with the Natives.

03/26/2016

The Eighth Congress of the United States on March 26, 1804, established the Territory of Orleans and the civil District of Louisiana with the passage of legislation called "An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof,"
Check out the size that Louisiana stated out !

03/25/2016

Talk about adding injury to insult !
Today in 1774 the British Parliament passed the Boston Port Act. The act closed the port of Boston and demanded funds to pay for the tea that had been dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773.

03/24/2016

Just updated and finished the research and description of this very important Civil War communication. General Sherman warns of a possible attack. A seriously cool piece of history.

September 29, 1864 telegraph from General William Tecumseh Sherman to General John McArthur.  Recipients copy.  Quarto.  In this incredibly poignant communicati

03/22/2016

March 22nd 1765 the Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament to raise funds for a standing British army in America. Talk about unintended consequences!
The British Statesmen the Honorable William Pitt ardently opposed it.

03/21/2016

Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state today in 1790. No doubt an interesting conversation between these two Founding Fathers.

03/20/2016

Union General William T. Sherman defeated Confederate General Joseph Johnston at the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina March 19th 1865. Resulting in Johnston surrendered to Sherman little more than a month later. Coupled with Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender earlier in April, Johnston's surrender represented the effective end of the war.

03/18/2016

Too Little Too Late !
Today in 1766 - The British Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act of 1765.
The revolution in the heart and minds had begun !

03/16/2016

Happy B-Day to the "Father of our Constitution" James Madison.
On this day in 1751, James Madison, drafter of the Constitution, recorder of the Constitutional Convention, author of the Federalist Papers and fourth president of the United States, is born on a plantation in Virginia.