All posts tagged "Quebec"
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5.7KConnecticutBenedict 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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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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17.9K1MaineThe Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Lumber Camps
In 1880, Dr. George Miller Beard boarded a train for Moosehead Lake in Maine to see for himself the strange lumberjacks known...
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5.9K2MassachusettsThomas Hutchinson Tries To Get His Son a Job
Massachusetts’ former colonial Gov. Thomas Hutchinson lived in unhappy exile in England while the American Revolution raged in his native land. He’d...
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