Tag: king-george-iii
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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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August, 1775: Response to Petition
250 years ago this month, one of the most powerful men in the history of the world signed a short document, consisting of just three paragraphs, that said essentially this: Many of his subjects in North America have been misled by dangerous men, have forgotten their allegiance to their mother country, have committed disorderly acts…
