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On this day 250 years ago at his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington issued this order: As the Commander in Chief has been apprized of a design form’d for the observance of that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the Effigy of the pope He cannot help expressing his surprise that there should…
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On this day 250 years in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution for the establishment of three battalions of the Continental Army for the defense of South Carolina and another battalion for Georgia. In addition the Congress resolved that the South Carolina Convention call a full and free representation of the people, and .…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia the Second Continental Congress resolved that the New Hampshire provincial congress establish a government Resolved, That it be recommended to the provincial Convention of New Hampshire, to call a full and free representation of the people, and that the representatives, if they think it necessary, establish such…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress resolved to provide “adequate funding and hiring authority” “for fitting out four armed vessels.” In addition, Congress recorded in its minutes that The Inhabitants of Passamaquoddy in Nova Scotia, have chosen a committee of Safety, and applied to Congress to be admitted into the…
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On this date 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress Resolved, That no produce of the United Colonies be exported, (except from colony to colony, under the direction of the Committees of Inspection and Observation, and except from one part to another of the same colony) before the first day of March next, without…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Congressman Samuel Adams wrote to Elbridge Gerry: It is always dangerous to the Liberties of the People to have an Army kept up among them over which they have no Control. . . . History affords us abundant Evidence of established Armies making themselves the Masters of…
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On this day 250 years ago in the village of Sartigan, Quebec Province of Canada, Col. Benedict Arnold wrote that two Penobscot Indians “who appeared friendly . . . assisted us over the Portage” into Canada and had guided him to the village. Other Native Americans, both Penobscots and Abenakis had also aided the expedition.…
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On this day 250 years ago off Canso, Nova Scotia, Captains Nicholson Broughton and John Selman commanding the USS Hancock and Franklin respectively captured the schooners Prince William and Mary although both schooners would be subsequently released by General Washington as noncombatant ships that were not involved in supplying Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson_Broughton On this day 250 years ago in…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Continental Army companies commanded by Captains Daniel Morgan, Matthew Smith, William Hendricks, Henry Dearborn, Oliver Hanchett, William Goodrich, Samuel Ward, Simeon Thayer, and John Topham entered Canada from Maine. Several companies that had taken the wrong route and stragglers would catch up with them over the next few…
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On this day 250 years ago, the 14-gun sloop HMS Otter anchored in the Hampton River to bombard the town while the HMS Hawke and three other tenders, shallow draft vessels, carried landing parties with orders to burn the Town of Hampton. Fifty members of the Culpeper Minute Battalion, led by Col. William Woodford and Capt.…
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