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On This Day In The Revolution

  • September 10, 2023

    The Georgia Commons House of Assembly passes a resolution creating a Committee of Correspondence. Georgia joins Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and South Carolina to establish the bodies that would soon take over effective governance of the colonies rebelling against royal authority. Source: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/committees-of-correspondence/

  • September 10, 2023

    Hello Anyone who finds this blog: I have never blogged before but want to make a contribution to the Semiquincentennial of our Nation. WordPress does not seem to think that “Semiquincentennial” is a word and I had to look it up. I remember the celebration and commemoration of the Bicentennial well; that word was catchy…

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  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — September 1, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago on Long Island (in what is now the Queens borough of New York City), British sailors from the brig HMS Halifax raided and stole goods from a warehouse owned by Francis Lewis, one of the members of New York’s delegation to the Continental Congress and a signer of the…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — August 31, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in New York City, General Washington consolidated the remnants of the Pennsylvania militia battalions from Northampton County and Berks County with Lt. Col. Edward Hand’s regiment of Pennsylvania riflemen. The Northampton and Berks County battalions had lost many of their men captured at the Battle of Brooklyn, including their…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — August 30, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in New York, the Continental Army had completed its evacuation of Long Island. The evacuation had begun at 7:00 pm the previous evening and had taken all night. The evacuation was aided by weather producing wind that prevented the British Navy from sailing into the East River to intercept…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — September 1, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago on Long Island (in what is now the Queens borough of New York City), British sailors from the brig HMS Halifax raided and stole goods from a warehouse owned by Francis Lewis, one of the members of New York’s delegation to the Continental Congress and a signer of the…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — August 31, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in New York City, General Washington consolidated the remnants of the Pennsylvania militia battalions from Northampton County and Berks County with Lt. Col. Edward Hand’s regiment of Pennsylvania riflemen. The Northampton and Berks County battalions had lost many of their men captured at the Battle of Brooklyn, including their…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — August 30, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in New York, the Continental Army had completed its evacuation of Long Island. The evacuation had begun at 7:00 pm the previous evening and had taken all night. The evacuation was aided by weather producing wind that prevented the British Navy from sailing into the East River to intercept…

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