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Soldier Tim Murphy and the Irish in the Revolutionary War
Archival portrait of Timothy Murphy and fellow Irish soldiers shaping the American struggle. The piece traces Murphy’s exploits from his New Jersey birth to bold rifle work at Boston, Saratoga, Monmouth, and Schoharie, detailing the Morgan Riflemen and Irish leaders like Thompson Hand Irvine Maxwell and Hand.
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Fraser
Saratoga
Sons of St. Patrick
America
Timothy Murphy
Minisink
N. J
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
William Thompson
Edward Hand
Boston
Washington
Cambridge
Daniel Morgan
Tim Murphy
Lechmere’s Point
Lossing
Marblehead
Mass
Glover
Thompson
Hand
St. Patrick’s
Howe
Gage
Tim
Long Island
Trenton
Princeton
Jersey
Dan’l Morgan
Morgan
Burgoyne
Canada
New York
Gates
Monmouth
Partizan Corps
Gabriel Long
Schoharie
John Sullivan
Troquois
Long House
Thomas Boyd
Murphy
Boyd
Schoharie Valley
Sir John Johnson
Eadership
Ireland
Richard Montgomery
Raphoe
Louisburg
West Indies
Quebec
William Irvine
William Maxwell
Continental Congress
John Thomas
Sullivan
Three Rivers
Philadelphia
Carlisle
Irvine
Inniskillen
Pennsylvania Bri
Gade
Lord Stirling
Anthony” Wayne
Fort Pitt
Maxwell
New Jersey
Second
Montgomery
Schuyler
Lake Champlain
Elizabethtown
Brandywine
Germantown
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania Battalion
Riflemen
Kings County
Eighteenth
Royal Irish Regiment