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On this day 250 years ago, Col. Henry Knox’s Noble Train of Artillery arrived at the Continental Army’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Or at least part of the train of 44 cannon and 16 mortars arrived in Cambridge. There are many accounts indicating that the artillery arrived in Cambridge on this day, but Knox himself…
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On this day 250 years ago off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, HMS Blue Mountain Valley was captured by about 40 New Jersey Continental Army soldiers led by Colonel William Alexander (usually referred to as Lord Stirling) and 77 Elizabethtown and Essex County Militia led by Colonel Elias Dayton. The Blue Mountain Valley had been blown off…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress appointed Moses Hazen as Colonel in command of the Second Canadian Regiment and Edward Antill as its Lieutenant Colonel. The Congress had previously appointed James Livingston as the Colonel in command of the First Canadian Regiment. Livingston, Hazen and Antill were all Americans living…
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On this day 250 years ago in the Lutheran Church in Woodstock, Virginia, Rev. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg delivered his sermon from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 which starts with “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” After reading the eighth verse, “a time to love, a time to hate.…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress addressed the devastating news of the defeat at Quebec and the loss of Gen. Richard Montgomery. The Congress ending arms, medicine, and soldiers, but also encouraging a deliberate effort by “general assemblies, conventions, and councils or committees of safety, upon the continent, to employ…
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On this day 250 years ago on what was then referred to as Long Island, but we would now call Queens in New York City, almost 450 men signed this pledge of allegiance to the Patriot cause: Whereas, we, the subscribers, inhabitants of Queen’ s County, on Long-Island, in the Province of New-York, have given…
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On this evening 250 years ago in Savannah, Royal Governor Sir James Wright was arrested by the Georgia Council of Safety. Earlier in the day Governor Wright had summoned Joseph Clay and Noble Wimberly Jones, the leaders of the Council of Safety, to his Executive Mansion to deliver a threat: the British fleet anchored off…
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On this day 250 years ago at Johnson Hall in Johnstown, New York, Sir John Johnson surrendered to a force of 3000 New York militia led by Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler. Johnson agreed to disband and handed over the arms of the unit of 400 Loyalists and Mohawk Indians who he had assembled in Johnstown…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution granting General Washington permission to re-enlist free blacks in the Continental Army. Washington had originally recommended to the Congress that it bar the enlistment of blacks but recognized in late December that he needed their re-enlistments because so many of their fellow…
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On this day 250 years ago, the King of Great Britain entered into a treaty with the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel whereby the Landgrave would furnish “twelve thousand men, completely equipped, and with artillery if desired.” In return, Britain would pay “30 crowns banco, or £7 4s. 4½d.” for every man amounting to £108,281 5s. per year to…
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On This Day In The Revolution 