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On this day 250 years ago in New York, the British landed 15,000 troops at Gravesend Bay and Denyse’s Ferry on Long Island (in modern day Brooklyn). The shore was guarded by 300 Pennsylvania riflemen under the command of Col. Edward Hand but they withdrew and did not oppose the overwhelming firepower of the British…
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On this day 250 years ago in Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, Brig. Gen. William Livingston wrote to General Washington that I sent a Spy last Night on Staten Island to obtain Intelligence of the movements of the Enemy, as many Things apparently new was seen from our Lines—He has this Moment returned in safety—The Substance…
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On this day 250 years ago at his headquarters at Richmond Hill estate located on Manhattan Island then just north of the City of New York (but today at the corner of Varick and Vandam streets in the Manhattan borough of New York City), General Washington issued General Orders to his troops to dispel a…
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On this day 250 years ago in New Ark (now Newark), New Jersey, Brig. Gen. Hugh Mercer was managing intelligence operations for the Continental Army. General Mercer was then in command of the Continental Army’s Flying Camp stationed in New Jersey. He is one of my heroes of the Revolution who would lose his life…
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On this day 250 years ago from Kings-Bridge (now the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx), New York, Maj. Gen. William Heath reported to General Washington on exchanging cannon fire with the HMS Phoenix and Rose as they sailed down the Hudson River to rejoin the British fleet anchored in New York Harbor. Early this morning…
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On this day 250 years ago, General Washington reported to John Hancock an attack the previous night by American fire ships on the HMS Phoenix and HMS Rose anchored in the Tappan Zee (or Tappan Sea) of the Hudson River that “has not succeeded to our wishes.” Lt. Col. Benjamin Tupper of the Continental Army…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia the Convention called to draft a new constitution for Pennsylvania adopted a Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth, or State of Pennsylvania. Many of the rights declared in Pennsylvania echo the earlier language of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Virginia…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress was having translated into German so that it could communicated to the Hessian soldiers who had just landed in America, the following resolution: Whereas it has been the wise policy of these states to extend the protection of their laws to all those who…
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On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland, the ninth and final Provincial Convention of Maryland convened to form a constitution for the State of Maryland. The 81 men who met in what is now called the Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1776 included a few men who had signed the Declaration of Independence of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Board of War (the 5-member committee of the Continental Congress charged with managing the Continental Army) issued a Report that directed the Army to discharge or grant Furlows to Joseph Kerr Hatter a private of Capt Will’s Company in the first Battallion and to Philip Mouse…
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