All posts tagged "forts"
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8.0K1ConnecticutConnecticut Battles Pennsylvania in the Pennamite Wars
The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of the Revolutionary era. They also resulted in the...
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5.2K4ConnecticutThe Wicked Blue Lights of New London Give Connecticut a Bad Name
On the moonless night of Dec. 18, 1813, a pair of mysterious blue lights at the mouth of the Thames River thwarted...
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9.8K1New England PlacesThe First, First Sunrise in Each New England State
Trying to calculate the exact moment of sunrise isn’t easy. In fact, the U.S. Naval Observatory says it’s nearly impossible because of...
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19.1K6Science and NatureSix Ways the Little Ice Age Made History
The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on...
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7.5K14Rhode IslandOld Roger Williams Tries To Stop King Philip’s War
On March 29, 1676, old Roger Williams was one of 30 men who remained in the town of Providence. Most of the...
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29.4K4bostonSix Revolutionary Forts
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
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25.1K3bostonThe Hope and Despair of Acadian Exiles, 1755-1766
In the winter of 1755, two Marshfield, Mass., selectmen knocked on the door of a family of seven Acadian exiles. They brought...
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7.2K1MassachusettsTiny 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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7.0K2MassachusettsDuc D’Anville Sails for New England in 1746 to Burn the Town of Boston
In 1745, William Pepperrell led an expedition to Acadia that stunned the French government when his men and a contingent of British...
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6486MassachusettsAlexander Scammell, the Lovesick Revolutionary War Hero
On a June night in 1777, Gen. Alexander Scammell poured out his heart in a letter to Abigail Bishop of Mistic, Mass....
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