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On this day 250 years ago in London, King George III issued a Proclamation of Rebellion that declared the Colonies in North America in rebellion and commanded all Our Officers as well Civil as Military, and all other Our obedient and loyal Subjects, to use their utmost Endeavours to withstand and suppress such Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Rebellion;…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention resolved to draft ordinances For appointing a Committee of Safety, for the more effectual carrying into execution the several rules and regulations established by this Convention for the protection of this colony, — To encourage the making saltpetre, gunpowder, lead, the refining sulphur,…
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On this day 250 years ago at his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler at Fort Ticonderoga, New York to propose the invasion of Canada: The Design of this Express is to communicate to you a Plan of an Expedition, which has engrossed my Thoughts for several Days:…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention adopted an “ordinance for raising, and embodying a sufficient force for the defence and protection of” Virginia. The Ordinance created a three-tiered military force with two regiments totaling a little more than 1000 troops for full-time service for one year, and 16 battalions…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, the General Court (i.e., the Massachusetts legislature) wrote to General Washington that we apprehend there is an absolute Necessity of our providing Coats for the Men & this Govermt having engag’d the same to our Troops a Part of which are already provided by the several…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention elected Robert Carter Nicholas as Chair of the Convention succeeding Peyton Randolph, who retired from the Convention due to poor health. The Convention also elected Edmund Pendleton, George Mason, JohnPage, Richard Bland, Thomas Ludwell Lee, Paul Carrington, DudleyDigges, William Cabell, Carter Braxton, James…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond the Third Virginia Convention resolved that a Committee of Safety be appointed, to consist of eleven members, to be chosen by ballot, by the members of this Convention, who are to continue to the next sitting of the Convention With this resolution the Virginia Convention established a…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Washington appointed Edmund Randolph and George Baylor as Aids-de-Camp and David Henly, John Trumbull, Richard Carey, Thomas Chase, Alexander Scammell and Daniel Box as Brigade Majors for the six brigades besieging Boston. The rank of Brigade Major would be abolished a a couple of years later…
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On this day 250 years ago, the inhabitants of Tryon County (modern day Lincoln and Rutherford Counties), North Carolina signed the “Tryon Resolves.” The signers of the Tryon Resolves vowed to make “recourse to Arms, for the preservation of those Rights & Liberties which the principles of our Constitution and the Laws of God Nature…
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On this day 250 years ago in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Lt. Col. Loammi Baldwin reported to General Washington about a skirmish with the British that supposedly wounded some of the Redcoats but no Americans were wounded: We have had a Small brush with the Enemy to day which began about 12 oClock and ended about ¼…
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