All posts tagged "Lexington"
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11.6K2Politics and Military12 Fascinating Facts About Independence Day
Independence Day from the get-go has been a rowdy holiday with ringing bells, gunfire, cannonfire, fireworks, feasting, speeches and toasts. Over the...
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9.2K4ConnecticutHow The Spirit of 76 Became World War I Propaganda
The Spirit of 76 reappeared again and again after the American Revolution as an idea, as a symbol and as a propaganda...
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14.7K5MassachusettsJoseph Warren, The Patriot Who Might Have Made Us Forget George Washington
Joseph Warren, say some today, would have been the first president of the United States had he not been killed at the Battle...
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14.8K2New 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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14.8K1MassachusettsThe China Trader Who Built the Lyman Estate
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
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17.2K4Arts 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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