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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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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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