Rufus Putnam Historical Talk with Robert Hubbard

During the American Revolutionary War, Rufus Putnam served as the Continental Army’s chief military engineer. He made it possible for the American forces to drive the British army from Boston in 1776, and he designed and supervised the construction of many major American military fortifications, including the most indispensable––West Point. Rufus was a cousin of Major General Israel Putnam and served under Israel along the Hudson River during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.

Several years after the Revolutionary War, Putnam personally founded the first permanent American settlement in the immense Northwest Territory, which was ceded to the new American nation by Britain. Putnam's influence and votes made it possible for Ohio to enter the U.S. as a free state.

This book is the first biography of Rufus Putnam in over 130 years!

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Robert Ernest Hubbard is a retired professor from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut and an adjunct faculty member in the college’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program. In addition, he is the author of the biography of Israel Putnam's cousin, General Rufus Putnam. He has also published a book on Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution, and ten other history and biography books.