All posts tagged "Boston Harbor"
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6.1K3bostonSeven Things You Didn’t Know (But Want To) About the Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party is one of the most misunderstood signature events of the American Revolution. For starters, it wasn’t about high...
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7.1K1MassachusettsTiny Militia Captures Crew of Huge British Warship HMS Somerset
In one of the most remarkable engagements of the American Revolution, the tiny militia of Truro captured more than 400 sailors and...
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10.0K19MassachusettsShattuck and The Devil Try To Stop Quaker Persecution in New England
Quaker persecution began in Massachusetts in July 1656 as soon as the first two Quakers sailed into Boston Harbor. Mary Fisher and...
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8.6K3MassachusettsBoston Light, The Cursed Lighthouse of Boston Harbor
The first Boston Light stood as a beacon in Boston Harbor for 60 years until the British blew it up in 1776....
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13.4K1ConnecticutItalians in New England Declared Enemy Aliens in WWII
Angela Puleo was one of thousands of Italian immigrants stigmatized as enemy aliens by the government during World War II . Two...
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3.2KConnecticutNew England Colonists Thunderstruck by the Lightning Storms of 1768
New Englanders were unsettled by terrific lightning storms during the summer of 1768 when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict...
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27.0K6New HampshireA German POW Escapes the WWII Prison Camp in Stark, N.H.
On Aug. 1, 1944 German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire, eluding the manhunt...
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5.6K2Arts and LeisureClarence DeMar Upends Medical Science, Proves Running Isn’t Bad for the Heart
Clarence DeMar survived a Dickensian childhood and bad medical advice to win the Boston Marathon seven times, despite taking two long breaks...
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33.0K27MassachusettsHow the Scots-Irish Came to America (And What They Brought With Them)
In the summer of 1718, five ships of Scots-Irish immigrants from Ulster arrived in Boston to an uncertain welcome. The Puritan leaders...
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John Andrews Informs Philadelphia of the Trouble with Tea in 1773
John Andrews regularly wrote to his brother-in-law in Philadelphia with the latest news, gossip and scandal in Boston in 1773. For the...
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