All posts tagged "privateer"
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3.7KMassachusettsStephen Higginson Tells Fish Stories To Parliament In 1771 and Gets Arrested For It
In 1771, the British government desperately needed to know how American colonists felt about fishing policies. Stephen Higginson filled them in, and...
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6.0KConnecticutSamuel Smedley, Fairfield’s Boy Commander of the Connecticut Navy
Samuel Smedley captured a dozen British vessels during the American Revolution, but the biggest obstacle to greater glory was the stinginess of...
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7.8K1MaineBeginner’s Guide to the French and Indian Wars, All Six of Them
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
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10.1KMassachusettsThe Death of Chow in Boston Harbor, 1798
Among the graves of British and American Revolutionary War soldiers on Boston Common lies the body of a 19-year old Chinese teenager...
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14.2K1Arts and LeisureYankee Troubadour Jonathan Plummer – The First Massachusetts Poet Laureate
There has never been an official Massachusetts poet laureate, but there certainly was an unofficial one. Jonathan Plummer of Newburyport, while not...
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19.5K2Crime and ScandalStephen Burroughs, Counterfeiter – A Revolutionary Success Story
Shortly after the end of the Revolutionary war the new American country needed currency, and Stephen Burroughs was happy to oblige. He...
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