All posts tagged "escape"
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5.1KConnecticutSamuel Smedley, Fairfield’s Boy Commander of the Connecticut Navy
Samuel Smedley captured a dozen British vessels during the American Revolution, but the biggest obstacle to greater glory was the stinginess of...
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16.1K1New HampshireMurder in the North Woods: Coos County’s Treacherous David Robbins
David Robbins was nobody’s idea of a good man. But he was a legend of the New Hampshire woods, made infamous by...
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8.6K5MainePeleg Wadsworth Escapes the British in Castine, Maine
The escape of Peleg Wadsworth from Fort George in Castine, Maine, was not something Col. John Campbell was anxious to report to...
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