All posts tagged "green mountain boys"
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8.0K1Science and NatureFighting for Independence During a Smallpox Epidemic: Lake Champlain in 1776
Throughout the first six months of 1776, the soldiers of the American Northern Army in Canada fought against two deadly enemies: smallpox...
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9.9K1Politics and MilitaryLoyalists and Patriots: Mary Munro Sent Packing to Canada During the Revolution
During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against each other, not just on the battlefield but...
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7.2KArts and LeisureAn 1839 Romance Novel Rescues Seth Warner From Obscurity
Green Mountain Boy Seth Warner might have been a forgotten Revolutionary War hero had he not appeared in an 1839 romance novel....
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In 1777 a Deadly Fog of War Swept Across Vermont and Claimed John Irish
On a hot summer day, July 27, 1777, John Irish, a Quaker farmer, had just finished threshing his wheat and was mowing...
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18.2K2New England PlacesSix Loyalist Houses
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
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19.1K4Arts and LeisureThe Gravesites of Six Revolutionary Heroines
The gravesites of such revolutionary heroes as Paul Revere and John Adams are well known and well marked, but where are the...
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