Environmental Legacies: How the War of Independence Affected the Natural World in Predictable and Surprising Ways
David Hsiung
January 10, 2023
When one considers the effects of war on the environment, their thoughts probably turn to modern events such as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. The American Revolution, however, also had a major impact on the natural world in the eighteenth century. At Valley Forge, […]