Increasing difficulties in recruiting soldiers forces Congress to compel states to conscript soldiers for the 1780 campaign, leading to complaints of a standing army.  
Pennsylvania passes the first state law abolishing slavery over time. While the law begins the process, it would not lead to a single slave being freed under the law until 1808.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North, by Arthur Zilversmit (or read on Archive.org)
Online Recommendation of the Week: Kestnbaum, Meyer "Citizenship and Compulsory Military Service: The Revolutionary Origins of Conscription in the United States.” Armed Forces & Society, vol. 27, no. 1, 2000, pp. 7–36, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45346398
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ARP241 Drafting an Army & Freeing Slaves

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The French recapture St. Eustatius in late 1781, just as the French fleet under Admiral De Grasse returns from Yorktown. With the arrival of the fleet, the French also capture St. Kitts. Admiral Rodney and Admiral Hood join together to defeat the French fleet at the battle of the Saintes. Just as that battle is coming to an end, the Spanish, using American privateers capture the Bahamas.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Rodney and the Breaking of the Line, by Peter Trew.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney, Vol. 2, edited by Godfrey Mundy: https://archive.org/details/lifecorresponden02munduoft
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ARP311 Battle of the Saintes

In March 1782, American militia destroy a Moravian Christian community of white settlers and Indians living in Ohio.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians, by Earl Olmstead (borrow on Archive.org). 
Online Recommendation of the Week: Zeisberger, David Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary among the Indians of Ohio, Vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/diaryofdavidzeis01zeis_0 and Vol 2: https://archive.org/details/diaryofdavidzeis02zeis_0
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ARP310 Gnadenhutten Massacre

After news of Yorktown reaches London, Lord North's government falls. As new opposition government lead by Lord Rockingham forms despite the King's opposition. The new government focuses on recognizing American Independence and ending the war.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Lord North, by W. Barring Pemberton (borrow on Archive.org).  
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, Vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/correspondencek01nortgoog
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ARP309 North Government Falls

British General Henry Clinton finds himself under increasing pressure from his own officers to resign command. General Washington approves an attempt to kidnap King George III's son in New York. Continental General Alexander McDougall faces a court martial.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Revolutionary: A Biography of General Alexander McDougall, by William MacDougall.
Online Recommendation of the Week: “General Orders, 28 August 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives [findings of court martial], https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-09275
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ARP308 McDougall Court Martial

The victory at Yorktown leaves the Continental Congress deeper in debt and weaker than ever. States, no longer fearing an imminent British threat, provide little support. Congress appoints secretaries who create a rudimentary executive branch with almost no power. British loyalist attempt to steal embarrassing and confidential records from the State House (Independence Hall).
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Book Recommendation of the Week:  The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown, by Thomas Fleming.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Narrative of the Exertions and Sufferings of Lieut. James Moody, in Cause of Government Since the Year 1776, by James Moody: https://archive.org/details/narrativeofexert00mood
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ARP241 Drafting an Army & Freeing Slaves

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