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On this day 250 years ago off Cape Ann, Massachusetts, the 74-ton, 6-gun schooner commissioned by General Washington as the Lee captured the 250-ton British cargo ship Nancy. The Lee was commanded by Captain John Manley (an immigrant from England) and manned by soldiers from Colonel John Glover’s regiment from Marblehead, Massachusetts. The capture of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted “rules for the regulation of the Navy of the United Colonies.” The Congress had already authorized ships to conduct raids to seize gunpowder, but this action effectively established the United States Navy. Also on this day in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress accepted two…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, the Boston Gazette published a song written by Benjamin Franklin satirizing “The King’s own REGULARS; And their Triumphs over the Irregulars.” The song begins: Since you all will have singing, and won’t be said, nay, I cannot refuse where you so beg and pray; So I’ll sing you…
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On this day 250 years from Chelsea on the American front lines besieging Boston, Lt. Col. Loammi Baldwin reported intelligence to General Washington about a Brigg from England Laden with all sorts of Ordinance Stores who were Informed that She was taken & caried in to Plimouth at which news the Admiral Said if so…
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On this day 250 years ago in Providence, Nicholas Cooke, the Governor of Rhode Island, wrote to General Washington that the Rhode Island Assembly took into Possession the Estates of several of the most active Tories, and also passed an Act making it Death and Confiscation of Estate to supply the Enemy’s Navy, or Army,…
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On this day 250 years ago, Reverend Ezra Stiles of Newport, Rhode Island recorded in his diary that he had met in Wrentham, Massachusetts with William Goddard, the Printer & now Surveyor General of the Post office in America, & very much acquainted with . . . the Characters in the Continental Congress . ..…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress approved trade with the Iroquois Confederacy in an effort to prevent the Iroquois from allying with the British. Specifically the Congress resolved: that the Indians be assured that this Congress are pleased with their desire, that the trade should be opened as formerly at…
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On this day 250 years ago at Fort Ticonderoga, New York, Major General Philip Schuyler reported to General Washington that Colonel Benedict Arnold had reached Quebec: I have the Happiness My Dear General to inclose You a Letter from Colo: Arnold, & a Copy of one of his to General Montgomery, with Copy of that…
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On this day 250 years ago in South Carolina, the first Siege of Ninety Six ended after three days in a truce between the Patriots and the Loyalists. The Patriots were almost out of ammunition and were outnumbered by the Loyalists, so they Loyalists would have won the battle had they continued the siege. Although…
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On this day 250 years ago from Point aux Trembles, Quebec, Col. Benedict Arnold reported to General Washington that on November 14 he and his men had crossed the St Lawrance without Obstruction, except from a Barge, on which we fired & killed three Men, but as the Enemy were apprised of our coming, and…
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