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On this day 250 years ago off St. Augustine, West Florida, the South Carolina Navy sloop Commerce, commanded by Capt. Clement Lempriere, captured the HMS Betsy. The Betsy was carrying a huge supply of gunpowder to St. Augustine and the crew of the Commerce immediately began unloading the gunpowder from the Betsy onto the Commerce. They were able to transfer about…
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On this day 250 years, Captain Daniel Morgan’s company of Virginia riflemen arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and reported to General Washington at the completion of their famous “Beeline March” from Winchester, Virginia. Morgan’s company of 96 riflemen had marched over 484 miles in 21 days, an amazing pace of 23 miles per day. Morgan’s riflemen…
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On this day 250 years ago, the sloop of war HMS Falcon sailed into Squam Harbor at the mouth of the Annisquam River in Massachusetts and dispatched a barge with about fifty Royal Navy sailors and marines ashore to capture a flock of sheep. Major Peter Coffin of West Gloucester gathered about half a dozen armed…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Washington wrote letters to the heads of government in New Hampshire (the New Hampshire Committee of Safety), Connecticut (Governor Jonathan Trumbull) and Rhode Island (Deputy Governor Nicholas Cooke) to inform them that our Necessaties in the Articles of Powder, Lead & Flints are so great…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Washington conducted a Council of War with Major Generals Charles Lee, Artemas Ward and Israel Putnam, Brigadier Generals John Thomas, John Sullivan, Joseph Spencer, Nathaniel Greene, Horatio Gates and William Heath, Washington’s aide Lt. Col. Joseph Reed and presumably his aide Major Thomas Mifflin and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the members of the Continental Congress began returning to their home states after the Congress adjourned the previous day to resume in September. Source: https://250andcounting.com/ On that day in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after learning the alarming news that the Continental Army was about to run out of gunpowder…
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On this day 250 years ago near Seneca town in South Carolina, a detachment of the 3rd South Carolina Rangers was attacked by a party of Cherokee Indians and driven from their camp. Source: https://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1775-skirmish/ On that same day in North Carolina, the Rowan County Regiment was formed. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_County_Regiment On this day 250 years…
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On this day 250 years ago the Continental Army fought four separate battles around Boston. Brigadier General William Heath recounted all four actions in his memoirs, presumably from his notes and records on that day: A little before one o’clock, a.m., a British floating-battery came up the river within 300 yards of Sewall’s Point [in…
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In the early morning hours of this day 250 years ago on Charlestown Neck outside Boston, about 80 Continental Army rifleman attacked British sentries barricading the neck to prevent the Continental Army from reoccupying the Charlestown Peninsula. Both the British and the Americans added troops to the skirmish and the British bombarded the Continental lines,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress established the Chaplain Corps. The Congress authorized payments for one ordained chaplain, with the rank captain, for each regiment. Sources: https://www.army.mil/article/268697/army_chaplain_corps_celebrates_248th_anniversary; https://armyhistory.org/u-s-army-chaplain-corps/; Journals of the Continental Congress at 220, accessed at https://archive.org/details/us_congress_continental/lljc002/page/219/mode/2up Also on that day the Continental Congress Resolved, That Michael Hillegas, and…
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