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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first contingent of the force of 1100 volunteers from the Continental Army led by Colonel Benedict Arnold departed to begin their march through Maine to join the invasion of Canada. Arnold’s troops were divided into three battalions: one commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Roger Enos, the second…
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On this day 250 years ago at Ile aux Noix, Quebec, 800 men led by Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler launched an unsuccessful attack on the British fort at St. John’s. Source: https://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1775-skirmish/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTmCrc722jA
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On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, the Salem Gazette reported that Last Saturday a privateer belonging to Newburyport carried into Portsmouth a schooner of forty-five tons, loaded with potatoes and turnips intended for the enemy in Boston. Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2019/09/massachusetts-privateers-during-the-siege-of-boston/ On this day 250 years ago, the Virginia Gazette reported on the destruction of…
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On this day 250 years ago, Julien Alexandre Achard de Bonvouloir departed France on a secret mission from the French government to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Sources: https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Julien_Alexandre_Achard_de_Bonvouloir; https://www.carpentershall.org/the-unlikely-spy On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington wrote Major General Philip Schuyler, who was then in Canada beseiging Fort St.…
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On this day 250 years ago off Gloucester, Massachusetts, the USS Hannah captured the sloop Unity, its cargo of lumber, naval stores and provisions and its Royal Navy crew of a midshipman and six sailors. Sources: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%227%20September%201775%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=3&sr=; “Gloucester Committee of Safety to George Washington, 7 September 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0321. [Original source: The Papers of George…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington dictated to the Army’s Adjutant General, Col. Joseph Reed, an Address to the Inhabitants of Bermuda: In the great Conflict which agitates this Continent I cannot doubt but the Assertors of Freedom & the Rights of the Constitution are possessed of your most…
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On this day 250 years ago, about1500 men under the command of General Philip Schuyler occupied the undefended Île-aux-Noix in the Richelieu River of Canada. With this action the nascent United States invaded Canada and began the siege of Fort St. John. Sources: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/quebec-invasion-1775/; https://250andcounting.com/; https://250andcounting.com/
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis Warren wrote John Adams to pass along intelligence she had gathered on the War’s progress in Boston: The ships which Arrived Last Fryday are from Halifax with a few petatoes and a Little wood. The people there are in Expectation of an Attack from…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Horatio Gates writing on behalf of the commander General George Washington sent this letter to Reuben Colburn “of Gardnerstone, upon the River Kennebeck in The Province of Massachusetts Bay.” You are to go with all Expedition to Gardnerstone upon the River Kenebeck, and without Delay…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Washington issued an order to Captain Nicholson Broughton of Marblehead, Massachusetts to Some historians consider the 78-ton schooner Hannah to be the first ship of the US Navy. It was certainly the first ship of the US Armed Forces. Sources: “Instructions to Captain Nicholson Broughton,…
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