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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, the British Army awoke to discover that the Continental Army had erected two forts on Dorchester Heights within cannon shot of the British troops in Boston and the British Navy in Boston Harbor. The British commander General William Howe exclaimed My God, these fellows have done more…
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On this day 250 years ago at Massachusetts, Corporal Moses Sleeper recorded in his diary that Last night the Cannonding began about 9 O Clock & & held till 7 o Clock this Morning The Congress Split at the Chamber Good Encouragment to split 3 Mortars In two Nights Cannonading “The Congress” was an old…
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On this day 250 years ago, a fleet of six Continental Navy ships, with two sloops captured by the fleet, under the command Commodore Esek Hopkins, with John Paul Jones as his second-in-command, landed 200 Continental Marines and 50 Continental sailors under the command of Captain Samuel Nicholas on New Providence Island, Bahamas. The landing…
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On this day 250 years ago from artillery positions at Lechmere Point, Cobble Hill, and Lamb’s Dam in Roxbury in the siege lines around Boston, the Continental Army began a bombardment of the British Army’s positions in Boston. The Americans conducted the bombardment to provide cover for their occupation of Dorchester Heights two days later.…
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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.…
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On this day 250 years ago at his Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington wrote to Phillis Wheatley: I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me, in the elegant Lines you enclosed; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyrick, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof…
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On this day 250 years ago the Patriots of North Carolina defeated the Highlander Loyalists of North Carolina at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge. At 1:00 am on that day the Highlanders began their six-mile march to Moores Creek Bridge, leaving behind their commander Brig. Gen. Donald MacDonald sick in his tent. When the…
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On this day 250 years ago, at Corbett’s Ferry on the Black River in North Carolina, Col. Richard Caswell learned that the thousand-man Loyalist Highlander Regiment commanded by British Gen. Donald MacDonald had early that morning crossed the Black River a few miles north of his position and was outflanking Caswell on their march to…
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On this day 250 years ago at this headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Washington ordered It being a matter of too much importance, to intrust the Wounds and Lives of Officers, and Soldiers, to unskilful Surgeons; The General requests the Director General, and the Surgeons of the Hospital, taking also to their assistance, such Regimental…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, Col. Joseph Palmer of the Massachusetts Militia wrote to his friend John Adams in the Continental Congress: I heartily thank you for your present of common Sense; it is very welcom, and I believe no person was ever more eagerly read, nor more generally approved: People…
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