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On this day 250 years ago, General George Washington ordered the Continental Army to fortify Nook’s Hill (also known as Newks or Nuke’s Hill, and as Foster’s Hill), a rise of about one hundred feet over the channel between Dorchester and Boston’s Neck, that overlooked the Boston Neck and provided a direct view of the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, four Selectmen (similar to city council members today) of Boston, John Scollay, Thomas Marshall, Timothy Newell, and Samuel Austin, signed a letter that was carried under a flag of truce to the Continental Army lines at Roxbury and then delivered to General Washington: As his Excellency General…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress Resolved, That Edward Hand be promoted to Colonel, and James Chambers lieutenant colonel, of the battalion of riflemen in the army at Cambridge. That William Winds be promoted to be Colonel, and Matthias Ogden be appointed lieutenant colonel, of the first New Jersey battalion.…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, the British Commander General Lord William Howe decided to cancel his planned attack on Dorchester Heights abandon Boston. The storm the night before had scattered the ships that Howe was planning to use to assault the American forts and when the storm cleared the next day it…
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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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