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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress appointed two immigrants from Germany — John Gaspar Stadler and Lt. Felix Lewis Massenbach — as Engineers for the Southern Department reporting to Major General Charles Lee. John Gaspar Stadler had come to America before 1758 and was farming in Spotsylvania County, Virginia at…
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On this day 250 years ago fifty miles east of Cape Ann, Nova Scotia, the British ship Elizabeth was captured by the American ship Hancock and two other privateers after a brief fight. In addition to the ship and its captain and crew, the privateers captured 13 British soldiers, 46 Loyalists, four people who were enslaved by the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress recorded in its Journal: Information being given to Congress that some prisoners in the gaol of this city have meditated an escape, and are near carrying their plan into execution: Resolved, That the gaoler be directed to confine John Connolly, J. Smith, and [Moses]…
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On this day 250 years ago in Newbury, New Hampshire (now Newbury, Vermont) Captain Thomas Johnson, Frye Bailey, Abial Chamberlain, Silas Chamberlain, and John McLean of the Newbury militia guided by Bill Heath of Rumney, New Hampshire set out on snow shoes to blaze a route to St. Johns, Lower Canada, (now Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec) following…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Samuel Ward died of smallpox. Ward was a delegate from Rhode Island in the Second Continental Congress and an early advocate for Independence. He was a fearless defender of American liberties who worked assiduously to create our Nation and should be honored as one of our Founding…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Battle of Saint-Pierre in Quebec Province, across the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City, the Americans defeated the British, although most of the men on both sides were Canadien. About150 Canadiens led by Clement Gosselin and Pierre Ayotte fighting alongside 80 Continental Army soldiers led by John…
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On this day 250 years from his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington reported to John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress that: When I had the honor to address you the 19th Instt upon the evacuation of the Town of Boston by the Ministerial army, I fully expected as their retreat and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Needham, Massachusetts, Private Alexander Quapish passed away after a long illness that he had contracted during the Siege of Boston. Quapish was a Native American originally from Yarmouth, Massachusetts who was living in Dedham, Massachusetts in May 1775 when he enlisted in Capt. Daniel Whiting’s company of Col. Jonathan…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, an effigy of Royal Governor Tryon was paraded through the streets and then hung from a gallows. A paper was attached to the effigy that read: William Tryon, late Governor of this province, but now a professed rebel and traitor to its dearest rights and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress: Resolved, That General Washington send an account of the troops in his camp, who are deficient in arms, to the several assemblies or conventions of the colonies, to which those men belong; and request them to send a sufficient number of arms for the…
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