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On this day 250 years ago in Providence, the Rhode Island Assembly adopted the Rhode Island Act of Renunciation that officially broke ties with Britain. Many historians assert that with this Act Rhode Island became the first independent state in North America. The Act was introduced by Jonathan Arnold, and passed the Upper House of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Canada, Maj. Gen. John Thomas took over command of the siege of Quebec [note some sources say this occurred on May 1]. Among the reinforcements who had also recently joined Continental Army encamped outside Quebec were four companies of the regiment of Col. Elisha Porter. On this day…
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On this day 250 years ago in Paris, France, King Louis XVI of France committed commits one million French livre in arms and munitions. Spain also promised support. Sources: https://250andcounting.com/; https://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/revwar-75.htm On this day 250 years ago on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, ten British companies landed near Fort Johnston to dismantle the…
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On this day 250 years ago in the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, the British fleet and troops commanded by General Sir Henry Clinton approached Fort Johnston to counter sniping by the Patriots. Fort Johnson was in ruins but Patriot riflemen had been hiding in the ruins while firing upon the nearby British fleet for…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, General Washington ordered All Officers, non-Commission’d Officers, and Soldiers, belonging to any of the Regiments, now in, or going to Canada, to parade to morrow Morning at nine o’Clock in the Street opposite to Genl Sullivan’s quarters, near the Bowling-Green, to receive his orders. All…
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On this day 250 years ago in Albany, New York, Capt. Jeduthan Baldwin recorded in his journal that he attended a Treaty between the Indians & Inglish, present a Comtt. of the City & county of Albany, Genl. Thomson & some other officers of the army & about 130 Chiefs & wariers from 2 Tribes…
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On this day 250 years ago at St. Johns, Canada, Congressman Samuel Chase wrote to John Adams: I am afraid all our Efforts to take Quebec will prove fruitless. . . . I hope you will . . . not spend your precious Time in Debates about our Independancy. In my Judgment you have no alternative…
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to Mercy Otis Warren: I think I will get you to join me in a petition to Congress. I thought it was very probable our wise Statesmen would erect a New Goverment and form a new code of Laws. I ventured to speak…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais wrote to the French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes in Paris regarding his meeting with Arthur Lee in which Lee pleaded on behalf of the Continental Congress that “We need arms, powder, and above all engineers: only you can help us, and…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Orange County Courthouse in Virginia, the freeholders of Orange County elected James Madison Jr. and William Moore as the County’s delegates to the Fifth Virginia Convention. This was Madison’s first election to public office. He would remain in public service for the next 40 years and become…
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