All posts tagged "prisons"
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9.6KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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8.1K2ConnecticutMore Revolutionaries Died in Prison Than on the Battlefield. A Lot More.
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionaries imprisoned in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death –...
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6.1K1Arts and LeisureFat Culls, Gingerbreads and Outrunning the Constable – 10 Ways to Describe the Rich in Colonial Times
It’s a rich man’s world. It was as true in the 1700s as it is today, and there were plenty of colorful...
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30.3K4ConnecticutHow The Old Deluder Satan Act Made Sure Puritan Children Got Educated
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
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16.5KArts and LeisureA Christmas First for New England? Each State Can Claim One.
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
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33.6K6New HampshireA German POW Escapes the WWII Prison Camp in Stark, N.H.
On Aug. 1, 1944, German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire, eluding a manhunt...
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