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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the members of the Continental Congress began returning to their home states after the Congress adjourned the previous day to resume in September. Source: https://250andcounting.com/ On that day in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after learning the alarming news that the Continental Army was about to run out of gunpowder…
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On this day 250 years ago near Seneca town in South Carolina, a detachment of the 3rd South Carolina Rangers was attacked by a party of Cherokee Indians and driven from their camp. Source: https://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1775-skirmish/ On that same day in North Carolina, the Rowan County Regiment was formed. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_County_Regiment On this day 250 years…
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On this day 250 years ago the Continental Army fought four separate battles around Boston. Brigadier General William Heath recounted all four actions in his memoirs, presumably from his notes and records on that day: A little before one o’clock, a.m., a British floating-battery came up the river within 300 yards of Sewall’s Point [in…
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In the early morning hours of this day 250 years ago on Charlestown Neck outside Boston, about 80 Continental Army rifleman attacked British sentries barricading the neck to prevent the Continental Army from reoccupying the Charlestown Peninsula. Both the British and the Americans added troops to the skirmish and the British bombarded the Continental lines,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress established the Chaplain Corps. The Congress authorized payments for one ordained chaplain, with the rank captain, for each regiment. Sources: https://www.army.mil/article/268697/army_chaplain_corps_celebrates_248th_anniversary; https://armyhistory.org/u-s-army-chaplain-corps/; Journals of the Continental Congress at 220, accessed at https://archive.org/details/us_congress_continental/lljc002/page/219/mode/2up Also on that day the Continental Congress Resolved, That Michael Hillegas, and…
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On this day 250 years ago in New Jersey, the freeholders of Somerset County formed Committees of Inspection for each township within the county and for the county itself. Another county in America established its own government independent of British rule. Source: https://kevinsrevolutionarywarchronology.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/bc087-newjerseyamericanrevolutionchronologydennisryan.pdf On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Committee of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress authorized the first medical department for the Army consisting of One Director general and chief physician, Four surgeons, per diem each, one and one third of a dollar, One apothecary, Twenty mates, One clerk, Two storekeepers, One nurse to every 10 sick, Laborers occasionally.…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, General Gage dispatched three Men-of-War and six transports to raid Block Island, Fisher’s Island, Gardiner’s Island, and Plumb Island in Long Island Sound in order to seize livestock to feed the British troops besieged in Boston. Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/siege-of-boston/ On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the…
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On this day 250 years ago at the home of Joseph Kershaw (an immigrant from England) in Camden, South Carolina, a delegation from the Catawba Indians responded to the letter from South Carolina Councilman William Henty Drayton asking for their help against “the Redcoats” should there be war. The Catawba pledged their support for the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charles Town, the South Carolina Council of Safety armed the sloop Commerce as the first ship of the South Carolina Navy and commissioned Clement Lempriere as its captain. His initial orders were “to procure Gunpowder for the Public of this Colony” and included “sealed . . . Orders not to…
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