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On this day 250 years ago at Samuel Getty’s Tavern in western York (but now Adams) County, Pennsylvania, men of the Marsh Creek settlement enlisted in Captain Michael Doudel’s company of riflemen. They would march from that location on July 1, 1775 to join the Continental Army at Boston and join the fight for American…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Generals Washington, Lee and Schuyler accompanied by Major Thomas Mifflin and other aides and a Congressional delegation that included John Adams and Silas Deane departed Philadelphia to begin their ride to the American Camp outside Boston. The Congressional delegation only went six miles and then returned to…
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On this day 250 years ago outside of Tondee’s Tavern in Savannah, the people of Savannah elected 25 delegates to the Provincial Congress of Georgia and a “Committee for enforcing the Association” that would later be called the “Council of Safety.” Source: Weeks, Carl Solana, Savannah In the Time of Peter Tondee, Columbia, South Carolina:…
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On this day 250 years ago in Fredericktown (now Frederick), Maryland, the two Maryland rifle companies authorized by the Continental Congress mustered at the Frederick County courthouse. The people of Frederick County will commemorate that event today, June 21, 2025. Sources: https://www.visitfrederick.org/event/250th-anniversary-commemoration%3A-maryland-rifle-companies/23228/ On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Penobscot sachem Joseph Orono addressed…
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On this day 250 years ago at Liberty Point in Cross Creek (present-day Fayetteville), North Carolina, 54 of the inhabitants of Cumberland County, holding ourselves bound by that most sacred of all obligations, the duty of good citizens towards an injured Country, and thoroughly convinced that under our distressed circumstances we shall be justified before…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress delivered to George Washington his Commission that read: We reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, conduct and fidelity Do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be General and Commander in chief of the army of the United Colonies and of all the forces…
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On this day 250 years ago, the last Royal Governor of South Carolina – Lord William Campbell – arrived in Charlestown. He refused to recognize the Provincial Congress and instead convened a meeting of the South Carolina Assembly to be held in August. On that same day, however, the First Provincial Congress went on about…
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On this day 250 years ago the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in Massachusetts. Although the Americans retreated from the field and the British technically “won” the battle, the British suffered more than a thousand casualties, including over a hundred commissioned and non-commissioned officers (226 dead and 828 wounded). In contrast, the American casualties…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Philadelphia, the President of the Continental Congress, John Hancock informed Colo. Washington that the Congress had yesterday, Unanimously made choice of him to be General & Commander in Chief of the American Forces, and requested he would accept of that Appointment; whereupon Colo. Washington, standing in his place,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress resolved that a General be appointed to command all the continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. Delegate Thomas Johnson of Maryland nominated George Washington as the Commanding General and he was unanimously elected. Source: “[Diary entry: 15…
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