Iwas recently looking into the role of the media in the American Revolution, and I came across the pithy statement by one David Ramsay that “in establishing American independence, the pen and the press had merit equal to that of the sword.”

If you caught the first episode of Ken Burn’s “American Revolution,” you saw the power of the colonial press in action. A physician and patriot, David Ramsay served in the South Carolina legislature during the Revolution and was imprisoned by the British in 1780. He was twice a delegate to the Continental Congress in the 1780s, and he wrote one of the earliest histories of the American Revolution, published in 1789 and ending with the election of George Washington as President earlier that year.

I wanted to see what he wrote about the Battle of Bennin

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