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September, 1775: American Blue
In New Jersey, a soldier’s blood runs blue. Back in 1673, the little town of Piscataway was at the bleeding edge of the British-American frontier. The Raritan River runs west from there up into the Jersey high ground, and in the summertime the natives would commonly come down it to hunt and fish along the…
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July, 1775: Causes and Necessity
In the month of July, Thomas Jefferson wrote a Declaration. But it wasn’t in 1776, and it wasn’t about Independence. It was a year earlier, on July 6, 1775, when Jefferson and John Dickenson wrote, “The Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms,” explaining the position of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. It’s a…
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June, 1775: The Road North
This is how an army begins. On June 14, 1775, in response to the events of Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia voted to create the Continental Army out of the militia units surrounding Boston. To lead it, they unanimously appointed George Washington of Virginia to be its commanding general. Washington, a…
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