Robert N. Fanelli is Secretary of the Washington Crossing American Revolution Round Table and frequent contributor to the Journal of the American Revolution. He serves as a Trustee of the Swan Historical Foundation, which owns the excellent collection of Revolutionary War artifacts on display in the museum of the Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, New Jersey. He is particularly interested in Pennsylvania's role in the American Revolution, and has lived most of his life in southeastern Pennsylvania, along the flanks of Edge Hill, site of an encounter between the American and British armies on December 7, 1777.