On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress appointed six men as brigadier generals in the Continental Army: John Armstrong of Pennsylvania, William Thompson of Pennsylvania, Andrew Lewis of Virginia, James Moore of North Carolina, Robert Howe of North Carolina, and William Alexander (usually referred to as Lord Stirling) of New Jersey. Armstrong, Thompson and Lewis were immigrants and not born in America. Only Armstrong and Howe survived the War; the rest of these generals would die of illness before the end of War. Moore, Thompson and Alexander died while in Service. Lewis resigned from the Army in 1777 but was then elected to the Virginia House of Delegates and Executive Council and died while returning home from an Executive Council meeting.
Sources: https://archive.org/details/us_congress_continental/lljc004/page/180/mode/2up; https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-march-1-1776/
On this day 250 years ago in Georgia, a landing party from the ships carrying General Clinton’s men landed on Cockspur Island and drove away the Georgia Militia guarding the islamd. The British had four men wounded but the Patriots had only one man wounded.
On This Day In The Revolution 