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On this day 250 years ago in London, Parliament passed Lord North’s “Conciliatory Resolution.” Although it promised to revoke taxes on any Colony that agreed to tax itself, the American revolution had become about much more than taxes and it would arrive in the Colonies only after Lexington and Concord. This was too little too…
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On this day 250 years ago in Salem, Massachusetts, Patriot militia confronted a detachment of the British Army in an event that is now called the “Salem Gunpowder Raid” or “Leslie’s Retreat.” This raid almost, but did not, start the Revolutionary War. Colonel Alexander Leslie sailed on the HMS Lively with a detachment of approximately…
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On this day 250 years ago from Mount Vernon, Virginia, George Washington wrote to Governor Dunmore’s agent John Connolly at Fort Pitt: With us here, things wear a disagreeable aspect; and the minds of men are exceedingly disturbed at the measures of the British government. The King’s Speech and Address of both Houses, prognosticate nothing…
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On this day 250 years ago in Savannah, Georgia, Royal Governor Sir James Wright reported to Lord Dartmouth that a customs collector who had seized smuggled hogsheads of molasses and sugar with the help of sailors from the Royal Navy was attacked by “a large number of people, with their faces smutted and armed with…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, Alexander Hamilton’s The Farmer Refuted was published. Hamilton made the following points in his pamphlet responding to a Loyalist pamphlet supporting Parliament’s authority over the American colonies: there is a supreme intelligence, who rules the world, and has established laws to regulate the actions of…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Staunton, Virginia, the freeholders of Augusta County met to select delegates to the Second Virginia Convention and thought proper to refer the choice of their delegates to the judgment of the committee, who, thus authorized by the general voice of the people, met at the courthouse . .…
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On this day 250 years ago at Mount Vernon, Virginia, Captain Thomas Marshall of the Fauquier County Independent Company dined (i.e., had lunch because dinner was the mid-day meal then) with George Washington and formally offered Washington command of the Fauquier Company. That evening William Grayson lodged with Washington and presumably discussed the Prince William…
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On this day 250 years ago in Newport, Rhode Island the Newport Mercury reported that “Last Tuesday the militia of this town were mustered and exercised, when they performed extremely well, considering there has not been a muster here before upwards of ten years.” Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/01/the-organization-of-the-rhode-island-militia-1774-1783/#_edn16 n.17 Also on that day in Wilmington, North Carolina, Francis…
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On this day 250 years ago off the coast of Mysore in India, 2 boats of Sultan Hyder Ali attacked the HMS Seahorse but were defeated. This engagement is most remembered in history because it was the first combat experienced by 16-year-old Midshipman Horatio Nelson. Of relevance to this blog it is important to remember…
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On this day 250 years ago at Mosby’s Tavern, then serving as the courthouse for Cumberland County, Virginia, the Cumberland County Committee passed the Cumberland Resolves in opposition to the Intolerable Acts and in support of the Continental Association. Source: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=33105 [note — The only source I have found for the Cumberland Resolves is this…
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