All posts tagged "french revolution"
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16.3K4New England PlacesSix Places That Raised a Liberty Pole
Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the years it took on different meanings for the...
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9.5KMassachusettsJames Swan, The Man Who Financed Two Revolutions
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground, with the French and British at loggerheads. The British Navy, with the support of...
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11.9KMassachusetts5 People Who Threw Shade on George Washington
George Washington possessed a unique set of qualities that inspired the people of 13 British colonies to create a new country. He...
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7.2KMassachusettsA French Medicine Man Confronts Yankee Morality in 1788
In 1788 Pierre de Sales Laterrière traveled from Canada to Massachusetts to study medicine. Born around 1743, he had been a practicing...
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6.1KMassachusettsRobert Hallowell, British Tax Collector, Returns to Boston in 1792
Robert Hallowell in 1792 decided to leave England and to return to America permanently. He had fled Boston during the American Revolution,...
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6.9K1Religion and Social MovementsJean-Louis Cheverus, the Catholic Priest Even the Puritans Liked
Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis Lefebvre Cheverus arrived in...
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