All posts tagged "military maneuvers"
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921ConnecticutBenedict Arnold’s Treason Unmasked to Washington—in Arnold’s Own House
George Washington learned about Benedict Arnold’s treason while staying at Benedict Arnold’s house near West Point. He wondered why Arnold, his best...
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2.5KMassachusettsMyles Standish and the Lost Colony of Massachusetts
In March 1623, leaders of the struggling Plymouth Plantation dispatched their paid military leader Myles Standish to a coastal settlement 25 miles...
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3.3KMassachusettsAgrippa Hull, Race Under British Rule
After decades of neglect the common burial grounds of slaves are now being documented, honored and preserved from New York to Mississippi...
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3.2KConnecticutJoseph Brant, Mohawk Leader, Goes to Dartmouth (Before It Was Dartmouth)
On Aug. 1, 1761, three teenaged Mohawk boys arrived on horseback at Moor’s Charity School in Lebanon (now Columbia), Conn. Two, Nickus...
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4.5KBusiness and LaborWhen New Englanders Feared a French-Canadian Immigrant Conquest
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
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5.3KConnecticutJohn Hersey Tells the Truth About Hiroshima
After the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. government censored the truth about the terrible carnage the atomic explosion wrought....
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