On This Day In The Revolution

Couriers carrying the Resolution of the Georgia Assembly creating a Committee of Correspondence, as well as the initial correspondence from Georgia’s Committee would have been traveling by boat, or horse, or both to Williamsburg. Boston and other American cities. Undoubtedly, other correspondence among the seven Committees of Correspondence were also en route. I am sure…

Benjamin Franklin published his “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One” in the The Public Advertiser in London. Although Franklin intended the “Rules” as a satire, the widely-read article proved to be remarkably prescient. The British Government within a year enacted “The Intolerable Acts” which implemented many of the…

The Georgia Commons House of Assembly passes a resolution creating a Committee of Correspondence. Georgia joins Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and South Carolina to establish the bodies that would soon take over effective governance of the colonies rebelling against royal authority. Source: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/committees-of-correspondence/

Hello Anyone who finds this blog: I have never blogged before but want to make a contribution to the Semiquincentennial of our Nation. WordPress does not seem to think that “Semiquincentennial” is a word and I had to look it up. I remember the celebration and commemoration of the Bicentennial well; that word was catchy…