All posts tagged "Battle of Saratoga"
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6.4KPolitics and MilitaryValcour Island, America’s Victorious Defeat on Lake Champlain
In the fall of 1776, a scrappy little patriot navy stymied an invasion by overwhelming British military forces during the Battle of...
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20.9K5New HampshireFame, Fortune, Fire and Brimstone: The Legend of Jonathan Moulton
In 1763, Jonathan Moulton of Hampton, N.H., took his prize oxen north to Portsmouth, N.H. He decorated the impressive 1,400-pound animal with...
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53.5K6New HampshireWentworth Cheswell, the Black Man Who Rode With Revere
Wentworth Cheswell is considered New Hampshire’s first archaeologist and the first African-American elected to public office in the United States. He also...
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11.4K4ConnecticutThe Praying Indians of the American Revolution
More than a century after the Puritans converted praying Indians and organized them into towns, they fought on the side of the...
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5.7KPolitics and MilitaryIn 1776, Revolutionary War Soldier Lemuel Roberts Laughs Off Smallpox
Life in the Continental Army wasn’t all glory. A soldier bore disease and abominable conditions, indifferent and sometimes ineffective leadership and flat...
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10.2K13New HampshireThe Revolutionary War Veterans Christmas Dinner in New Hampshire
Benjamin Pierce, a war hero and father of future president Franklin Pierce, threw a Christmas dinner for 21 Revolutionary War veterans in 1824....
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