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On this day 250 years ago, Continental Army troops, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts militia, Green Mountain Boys from Vermont and Canadian volunteers under the command of Irish immigrant, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery occupied Montreal, Canada without firing a shot. British soldiers under Governor Carleton abandoned the city on the approach of the American army.…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charlestown harbor, South Carolina, at 4:00 a.m., the HMS Tamar and HMS Cherokee drifted close to the USS Defense. Both British ships commenced to fire broadside shots at the Defense for three hours. The Defense managed to sink the last hulk and then withdrew from the area. The Tamar sent an armed boat to the hulk and set it…
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On this day 250 years ago, the HMS Adamant sailed from Quebec to England carrying Guy Johnson, Joseph Brant and Ethan Allen and 33 other American prisoners. Source: Nash at 175. And on that day in Charlestown Harbor, off modern day Mount Pleasant, Charleston, South Carolina, the South Carolina Navy’s Defense, commanded by Capt. Simon…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress created the Marine Corps. The Congress commissioned Samuel Nicholas to raise two Battalions of Marines and Nicholas then went to the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia and appointed Robert Mullan, the tavern owner, as the first U.S. Marine recruiter. Before the end of the Revolution…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charlestown harbor, South Carolina, the British sloop HMS Tamar, captured a sloop that was headed to Georgia with a load of apples and cider bound. Gunner George Walker was given command of the newly-captured sloop and was supplied with two trunks of pistols and cutlasses, two chests of arms,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress dispatched a delegation to meet with General Montgomery’s Army in Canada with authorizations for supplies and instructions for dealing with the people of Canada: The Congress desire you to exert your utmost endeavors to induce the Canadians to accede to a union with these…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Rhode Island legislature declared that Governor Joseph Wanton had continued to demonstrate that he is inimical to the rights and liberties of America, and is thereby rendered totally unfit to sustain the said office. And whereas, the calamities of the present times, make it necessary for this General…
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On this day 250 years ago in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the Royal Governor reported to the British ministry in London that the North Americans are amply supplied with Gun powder and other Military Stores by the French in Hispanola; which is sold at an advanc’d price by the Inhabitants who I find import great quantitys…
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On this day 250 years ago at his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington issued this order: As the Commander in Chief has been apprized of a design form’d for the observance of that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the Effigy of the pope He cannot help expressing his surprise that there should…
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On this day 250 years in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution for the establishment of three battalions of the Continental Army for the defense of South Carolina and another battalion for Georgia. In addition the Congress resolved that the South Carolina Convention call a full and free representation of the people, and .…
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