Tag: american-history
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May 1775: The Patriot
This is the story of an American Patriot. He was from New Haven, CT, and his father died when he was very young; as a result, he could not afford to attend Yale with his cohorts. This left him with a sense of insecurity that he overcame by sailing on numerous trade voyages to the…
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April 19-24, 1775: Israel’s Ride
News spreads fast. Here’s how. On Wednesday, April 19, 1775, in Watertown MA near Boston, Joseph Palmer, a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, learned about what had happened that morning in Lexington. He wrote and dispatched what has become known to historians as the ‘Lexington Alarm’: “To all the friends of American liberty…
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December, 1774: The Shot, Not
As the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party approached, tensions were running high throughout New England. The port of Boston had been closed by numerous British ships, including a 50-gun man-of-war floating in the harbor, and another in the Charles River. The only entrance to the town was guarded by a regiment on either side…
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Fall 1774: Thanksgiving
250 years ago, Boston was an armed camp. In the wake of the Tea Party, a new Royal Governor was appointed to take control of the town and enforce the Intolerable Acts that had been imposed by Parliament. The guy who was chosen was none other than General Thomas Gage, the most noteworthy British soldier…
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October 1774: Resolution
250 years ago this week, the First Continental Congress concluded, with little decided and much hanging in the balance. Delegates from all the colonies except Georgia, including such notables as John Adams, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, John Jay, and Roger Sherman, and led by President Peyton Randolph of Virginia and Secretary Charles Thomson of Pennsylvania,…
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