All posts tagged "British Royal Navy"
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15.7K7Politics and MilitaryMaine Timbers Shore Up the British Navy in 1666
There was nothing like a shipment of white pine Maine timbers from the New England colonies to cheer up a British Royal...
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10.8K9Politics and MilitaryNewport Stamp Act Riot, Following the Pattern, Sends Loyalists Packing
Prominent Rhode Island politician Martin Howard might have thought twice about publicly supporting the Stamp Act of 1765. It was the British government’s...
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36.1K6MaineThe Revolutionary Flags That Fell to the Stars and Stripes
The patriots who fought for independence from Great Britain did so under a variety of revolutionary flags. But by June 14, 1777,...
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