All posts tagged "rebellion"
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7.2K1Politics and MilitaryLoyalists and Patriots: Mary Munro Sent Packing to Canada During the Revolution
During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against each other, not just on the battlefield but...
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21.7K1MassachusettsIn 1774 Joshua Edson Reads About His Death
In October of 1774, Boston newspaper publishers Benjamin Edes and John Gil printed a letter that told of a startling sight in...
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14.0KMassachusettsThe American Revolution Through British Eyes
The American Revolution looked much different through British eyes than it did to the rebels who claimed to fight for liberty and...
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7.0K1Politics and MilitaryRhode Island’s Abraham Whipple Sails to Bermuda for George Washington
In June of 1775, with the Battle of Bunker Hill over, George Washington needed ammunition to prepare for the American Revolutionary War...
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11.1KNew England PlacesThe Oldest Newspaper in Each New England State
Those quarrelsome publishers just love to argue over the honor of being the oldest newspaper in the United States. But which one...
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9.2K3New HampshireThe Stone-Throwing Devil of New Castle, N.H.
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
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