All posts tagged "Battle of Saratoga"
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7.6KPolitics 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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27.5K5New 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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58.1K6New HampshireWentworth Cheswell, the Black Man Who Rode With Revere
In the middle of December 1774, messengers on horseback carried news to the people of New Hampshire’s seacoast. Two British warships were...
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13.4K4ConnecticutThe 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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6.7KPolitics 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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11.9K13New 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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