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On this day 250 years ago, the New Hampshire delegation — Josiah Bartlett and John Langdon — joined the Continental Congress and Philadelphia. Source: https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-september-16-1775/ On this day 250 years ago in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the 1100 Continental Army volunteers of Col. Benedict Arnold’s expedition into Canada were awaiting ships to transport them to Maine. Some…
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On this day 250 years ago South Carolina Governor Lord William Campbell’s fled Charleston to the safety of the HMS Tamar in Charleston Harbor. The departure of South Carolina’s last royal governor left theSouth Carolina Provincial Congress and Council of Safety in control of the entire province except the post at Ninety Six and other…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress: Resolved, That Samuel Stringer be appointed director of the Hospital, and chief Physician and Surgeon for the Army in the northern department with the power to appoint up to four surgeon mates. That the deputy Commissary general purchase and forward such medicines as General…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress reconvened with a full delegation from Georgia, making it the thirteenth colony participating in the Congress. Georgia was represented by Archibald Bullock, John Houstoun, John J. Zubly, Noble Wimberly Jones, and Lyman Hall. The delegations from Virginia (Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, General Thomas Gage, Commander of all British troops in North America, wrote to John Stuart, Indian Superintendent to the Southern Region that he should encourage the Indians to “take arms against His Majesty’s enemies and to distress them in all their power.” Prior to this point both…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first contingent of the force of 1100 volunteers from the Continental Army led by Colonel Benedict Arnold departed to begin their march through Maine to join the invasion of Canada. Arnold’s troops were divided into three battalions: one commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Roger Enos, the second…
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On this day 250 years ago at Ile aux Noix, Quebec, 800 men led by Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler launched an unsuccessful attack on the British fort at St. John’s. Source: https://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1775-skirmish/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTmCrc722jA
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On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, the Salem Gazette reported that Last Saturday a privateer belonging to Newburyport carried into Portsmouth a schooner of forty-five tons, loaded with potatoes and turnips intended for the enemy in Boston. Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2019/09/massachusetts-privateers-during-the-siege-of-boston/ On this day 250 years ago, the Virginia Gazette reported on the destruction of…
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On this day 250 years ago, Julien Alexandre Achard de Bonvouloir departed France on a secret mission from the French government to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Sources: https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Julien_Alexandre_Achard_de_Bonvouloir; https://www.carpentershall.org/the-unlikely-spy On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington wrote Major General Philip Schuyler, who was then in Canada beseiging Fort St.…
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On this day 250 years ago off Gloucester, Massachusetts, the USS Hannah captured the sloop Unity, its cargo of lumber, naval stores and provisions and its Royal Navy crew of a midshipman and six sailors. Sources: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%227%20September%201775%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=3&sr=; “Gloucester Committee of Safety to George Washington, 7 September 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0321. [Original source: The Papers of George…
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