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On this day 250 years ago off the coast of Mysore in India, 2 boats of Sultan Hyder Ali attacked the HMS Seahorse but were defeated. This engagement is most remembered in history because it was the first combat experienced by 16-year-old Midshipman Horatio Nelson. Of relevance to this blog it is important to remember…
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On this day 250 years ago at Mosby’s Tavern, then serving as the courthouse for Cumberland County, Virginia, the Cumberland County Committee passed the Cumberland Resolves in opposition to the Intolerable Acts and in support of the Continental Association. Source: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=33105 [note — The only source I have found for the Cumberland Resolves is this…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City a report subsequently published in Holt’s Journal stated that It is said that at least three-fourths of the people in Cortlandt’s manor, New York, have declared their unwillingness to enter into the Congressional measures, that a great number of the people in general in Westchester…
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On this day 250 years ago in Prince William County, Virginia, Captain James Scott, Jr. of the Fauquier Independent Company wrote to George Washington, on behalf of himself and Captain Thomas Marshall, to offer Washington command of Fauquier Company. Both Scott and Marshall had served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and Virginia Convention with…
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On this day 250 years ago the Massachusetts Provincial Congress passed resolutions stating: That Mr. [Samuel] Adams, Major [Joseph] Hawley, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Hon. Mr. [Thomas] Cushing, Mr. [Robert Treat] Paine, Col. [Joseph] Palmer, and Mr. [Benjamin] Freeman, be a committee to bring in a resolve holding up to the people of this province, the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Rhode Island the Newport Mercury reported that “Last Tuesday the militia of this town were mustered and exercised, when they performed extremely well, considering there has not been a muster here before upwards of ten years.” Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/01/the-organization-of-the-rhode-island-militia-1774-1783/#_edn16 n.17 Also on that day in Middleborough, Massachusetts, the Town Meeting…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Parliament requested that the King: direct your Majesty’s governor of Massachusetts Bay to take the most effectual methods for procuring the fullest information that can be obtained touching all treasons or misprision of treason committed within this government since the 30th day of December last… together with…
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On this day 250 years ago in London Lord Camden wrote to the Earl of Chatham: The ministry are proceeding with the most mischievous expedition, to plunge the nation irrecoverably into a civil war, which, indeed, I consider as commenced by the joint address; and the bill to cut off the four New England colonies…
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On this day 250 years ago in North Carolina, John Harvey, the moderator of the First North Carolina Provincial Congress and the leader of the Patriots in North Carolina, issued a call for the people of North Carolina to elect representatives to another Provincial Congress to be held on April 3. Source: https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_brunswick_county_regiment.html
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, John Adams wrote “To a Friend in London”: It is not easy to convey to you, Sir, an adequate idea of the state of this province. It is now at last true, that we have no government, legislative, executive, or judicial. The people determined never to…
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