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On this day 250 years ago on Ploughed Hill in Charlestown (now called Mount Ursuline in Somerset), Massachusetts, Continental Army troops commanded by Brigadier General John Sullivan were bombarded by British cannon in fortifications they had erected the day before. The British fired cannon from their nearby fortifications on Bunker Hill and from two floating…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention adjourned. As its final act the Convention adopted a Declaration that recited multiple actions by the Royal Governor that were irrefragable proof of his fixed determination to do this unhappy country every iujury in his power Accordingly, the Convention resolved that: In the…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Dutch Church in Albany, New York, representatives of the Six Nations of the Iroquois met with representatives of the Continental Congress and the Albany Committee of Safety to negotiate a treaty of peace. Although the Iroquois representatives pledged we shant take Notice of any hostile propositions that…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, Captain John Lamb led his newly formed artillery company and the Hearts of Oak Militia company (composed mostly of students at Kings College, now Columbia University) to seize 20 cannons and carriages from the Battery on the southern tip of Manhattan. Besides Lamb, several other…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the Provincial Congress of New York adopted a Militia Bill for “well ordering and regulating the militia” that Resolved, That every county, city, manor, town, precinct and district within this Colony, (where the same is not already done,) be divided into districts or beats, by…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, King George III issued a Proclamation of Rebellion that declared the Colonies in North America in rebellion and commanded all Our Officers as well Civil as Military, and all other Our obedient and loyal Subjects, to use their utmost Endeavours to withstand and suppress such Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Rebellion;…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention resolved to draft ordinances For appointing a Committee of Safety, for the more effectual carrying into execution the several rules and regulations established by this Convention for the protection of this colony, — To encourage the making saltpetre, gunpowder, lead, the refining sulphur,…
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On this day 250 years ago at his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler at Fort Ticonderoga, New York to propose the invasion of Canada: The Design of this Express is to communicate to you a Plan of an Expedition, which has engrossed my Thoughts for several Days:…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention adopted an “ordinance for raising, and embodying a sufficient force for the defence and protection of” Virginia. The Ordinance created a three-tiered military force with two regiments totaling a little more than 1000 troops for full-time service for one year, and 16 battalions…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, the General Court (i.e., the Massachusetts legislature) wrote to General Washington that we apprehend there is an absolute Necessity of our providing Coats for the Men & this Govermt having engag’d the same to our Troops a Part of which are already provided by the several…
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