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US Navy and Army Game In 1760, Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers took possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain. French commandant Belotre surrendered Detroit. General James Amherst selected Rogers for the honor of receiving the surrender of the western French posts——Detroit, Michilimackinac, Ouiatenon, and others. In 1775, Captain John Manley of Marblehead, commanding the schooner Lee captured the British brigantine Nancy, about ten miles off Cape Ann. In 1775, Congress i

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US Navy and Army Game In 1760, Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers took possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain. French commandant Belotre surrendered Detroit. General James Amherst selected Rogers for the honor of receiving the surrender of the western French posts——Detroit, Michilimackinac, Ouiatenon, and others. In 1775, Captain John Manley of Marblehead, commanding the schooner Lee captured the British brigantine Nancy, about ten miles off Cape Ann. In 1775, Congress i

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"Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities." James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 20

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General Westmoreland In 1620, 41 male passengers on the Mayflower , prior to landing at Plymouth , Massachusetts, signed the Mayflower Compact , by which they agreed to abide by the laws of the new government they would establish. In 1654, Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia. In 1775, Two young soldiers have been found guilty of abandoning their posts while on duty—an offense that could have cost them their lives. A court-martial has sentenced them to

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"The history of Germany is a history of wars between the emperor and the princes and states; of wars among the princes and states themselves; of the licentiousness of the strong, and the oppression of the weak; of foreign intrusions, and foreign intrigues; of requisitions of men and money disregarded, or partially complied with; of attempts to enforce them, altogether abortive, or attended with slaughter and desolation, involving the innocent with the guilty; of general inbec

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"As a weak government, when not at war, is ever agitated by internal dissentions, so these never fail to bring on fresh calamities from abroad." Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 18

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Tom Horn In 1767, The Townshend Acts go into effect. These were a series of laws created to bring in revenue and gain more control over the Colonies. In 1775, From Cambridge, Washington writes Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, his trusted secretary and confidant. He updates Reed on pressing matters: the army’s dire lack of pay, Congress’s slow response, and his appeal for one month’s advanced wages to encourage soldiers to reenlist. Washington mentions Henry Knox’s mission to

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