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Post by Aurelia on Oct 2, 2019 9:05:54 GMT -5
A place to share the events of the American Revolutionary War by the date on which they happened...
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Post by Aurelia on Oct 2, 2019 9:06:35 GMT -5
October 2nd 1768 : The British troop ships arrive in Boston Harbor - beginning British occupation of the area. They initially encamped on Boston Commons, around the court house and at Faneuil Hall. While British officers blended easily into Boston society, their soldiers' demand for prostitutes and alcohol was seen as a flagrant affront by the highly puritanical leaning Bostonians. Relations between British soldiers and Boston's citizens would reach a bloody crescendo 15 months later in the Boston Massacre.  |
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Post by Aurelia on Oct 2, 2019 9:08:00 GMT -5
October 2nd 1780 : British intelligence officer Major John André was accused of being a spy and hanged in Tappan, NY. He was a co-conspirator with Benedict Arnold and had helped plan Arnold's attempted surrender of the font at West Point. In André's boot stocking were 6 papers detailing the lay out of West Point and the means of taking it - all written in Arnold's hand.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 10:06:21 GMT -5
Apologies wrong war.
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Post by Aurelia on Oct 3, 2019 9:33:40 GMT -5
October 3rd 1781 - During the Seige of Yorktown, French Brigadier General Marquis de Choisy leading Lauzun's Legion and John Mercer's Virginia Militia Battalion encounters British Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dundas and Banastre Tarleton's foraging party. Though initially bottled up by Marquis de Choisy's forces, the British retreat to their defensive lines, loosing 50 men in the process.  Trumpeter of the Lauzun's Legion c.1785 |
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Post by auntiem on Oct 3, 2019 20:17:41 GMT -5
Nice start up.
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Tomatolake
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Post by Tomatolake on Oct 4, 2019 6:36:55 GMT -5
Well done. Enjoying this I know very little about the Rebellion
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Post by Aurelia on Oct 4, 2019 7:56:31 GMT -5
Thanks!  If anyone knows of any additional events or details about the ones I'm posting, please feel free to share! |
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Post by Aurelia on Oct 4, 2019 8:14:21 GMT -5
October 4th 1775 - Dr. Benjamin Church, the first surgeon general of the Continental Army is brought before an Army court martial. Though he was a active in Boston's Sons of Liberty, Church was also sending covert messages to British General Thomas Gage, via an old mistress. Upon deciphering one of Church's messages in what was ruled "criminal correspondence", it seems that the messages contained no pertinent troop information, but Church did reveal his undying devotion to the crown. Church was sentenced to life imprisonment, only to be released a year later as he became ill - Church later left Boston for Martinique on a ship was lost at sea. Modern scholars have found messages in General Gage's files showing that earlier communication between Church and Gage yielded more significant intelligence on the movements of the Americans.  |
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Post by Aurelia on Oct 4, 2019 8:25:14 GMT -5
October 4th 1777 - An early morning attack on the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania goes awry for General Washington, causing the Continentals to be repelled and retreat. Both sides suffer heavy losses. The dense fog that morning is thought to have played a role in Washington's loss.  British 25th Regiment of Foot - one of the two Foot Guard battalions present at the Battle of Germantown |
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If anyone knows of any additional events or details about the ones I'm posting, please feel free to share!