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On this day 250 years ago at the Battle of Saint-Pierre in Quebec Province, across the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City, the Americans defeated the British, although most of the men on both sides were Canadien. About150 Canadiens led by Clement Gosselin and Pierre Ayotte fighting alongside 80 Continental Army soldiers led by John…
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On this day 250 years from his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington reported to John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress that: When I had the honor to address you the 19th Instt upon the evacuation of the Town of Boston by the Ministerial army, I fully expected as their retreat and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Needham, Massachusetts, Private Alexander Quapish passed away after a long illness that he had contracted during the Siege of Boston. Quapish was a Native American originally from Yarmouth, Massachusetts who was living in Dedham, Massachusetts in May 1775 when he enlisted in Capt. Daniel Whiting’s company of Col. Jonathan…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, an effigy of Royal Governor Tryon was paraded through the streets and then hung from a gallows. A paper was attached to the effigy that read: William Tryon, late Governor of this province, but now a professed rebel and traitor to its dearest rights and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress: Resolved, That General Washington send an account of the troops in his camp, who are deficient in arms, to the several assemblies or conventions of the colonies, to which those men belong; and request them to send a sufficient number of arms for the…
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On this day 250 years ago on Castle Island in Boston Harbor, the British set off explosives that demolished Castle William, the fortification that protected the entrance to Boston Harbor. The British fleet remained at anchor at Nantasket Roads a few miles south and British ships continued to patrol off Boston Harbor and the coast…
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On this day 250 years ago at his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington reported to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress that It is with the greatest pleasure I inform you that on Sunday last the 17th. Instant, about 9th O’Clock in the forenoon the Ministerial Army evacuated the Town of Boston,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, General George Washington entered Boston to inspect the condition of the city. Washington was immune to the smallpox so he entered the city with few staff and guards as the rest had not yet contracted the disease. He joined the initial contingent of 500 men under Maj.…
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On this day 250 years ago the British Army evacuated Boston. Including Loyalist families as well as British soldiers, 11,000 people boarded 120 ships in Boston Harbor that morning. Major General Artemis Ward of Massachusetts, second in command to General Washington, led 500 men of the Continental Army who were immune to smallpox into Boston. Because…
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John: there has been some movements amongst the Ministerial Troops as if they meant to evacuate the Town of Boston. Between 70 and 80 vessels of various sizes are gone down and lay in a row in fair sight of…
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