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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, John Adams wrote to Richard Henry Lee: A Legislative, an Executive and a judicial Power, comprehend the whole of what is meant and understood by Government. It is by ballancing each of these Powers against the other two, that the Effort in humane Nature towards Tyranny, can…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia while attending the Second Continental Congress, John Adams wrote William Tudor, the Judge Advocate of the Continental Army, and his former associate: Virtue, my young Friend, Virtue alone, is and can be the Foundation of our new Governments Source: https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-november-14-1775/
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On this day 250 years ago, Continental Army troops, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts militia, Green Mountain Boys from Vermont and Canadian volunteers under the command of Irish immigrant, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery occupied Montreal, Canada without firing a shot. British soldiers under Governor Carleton abandoned the city on the approach of the American army.…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charlestown harbor, South Carolina, at 4:00 a.m., the HMS Tamar and HMS Cherokee drifted close to the USS Defense. Both British ships commenced to fire broadside shots at the Defense for three hours. The Defense managed to sink the last hulk and then withdrew from the area. The Tamar sent an armed boat to the hulk and set it…
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On this day 250 years ago, the HMS Adamant sailed from Quebec to England carrying Guy Johnson, Joseph Brant and Ethan Allen and 33 other American prisoners. Source: Nash at 175. And on that day in Charlestown Harbor, off modern day Mount Pleasant, Charleston, South Carolina, the South Carolina Navy’s Defense, commanded by Capt. Simon…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress created the Marine Corps. The Congress commissioned Samuel Nicholas to raise two Battalions of Marines and Nicholas then went to the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia and appointed Robert Mullan, the tavern owner, as the first U.S. Marine recruiter. Before the end of the Revolution…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charlestown harbor, South Carolina, the British sloop HMS Tamar, captured a sloop that was headed to Georgia with a load of apples and cider bound. Gunner George Walker was given command of the newly-captured sloop and was supplied with two trunks of pistols and cutlasses, two chests of arms,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress dispatched a delegation to meet with General Montgomery’s Army in Canada with authorizations for supplies and instructions for dealing with the people of Canada: The Congress desire you to exert your utmost endeavors to induce the Canadians to accede to a union with these…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Rhode Island legislature declared that Governor Joseph Wanton had continued to demonstrate that he is inimical to the rights and liberties of America, and is thereby rendered totally unfit to sustain the said office. And whereas, the calamities of the present times, make it necessary for this General…
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On this day 250 years ago in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the Royal Governor reported to the British ministry in London that the North Americans are amply supplied with Gun powder and other Military Stores by the French in Hispanola; which is sold at an advanc’d price by the Inhabitants who I find import great quantitys…
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