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In 1776, Washington remained at Cambridge , studying the movements of the lingering British fleet. From Braintree, Josiah Quincy sends close, journal-like reporting : red ensigns, blue flags, and pendants shift repeatedly from Vice Admiral Molyneux Shuldham’s flagship. “I wish it was in my Power to construe it,” Quincy confesses, unable to read the admiral’s intent. In 1776, from Gloucester, Winthrop Sargent reports that 70 ships passed Cape Ann at sundown. Washington weig

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In 1776, Washington remained at Cambridge , studying the movements of the lingering British fleet. From Braintree, Josiah Quincy sends close, journal-like reporting : red ensigns, blue flags, and pendants shift repeatedly from Vice Admiral Molyneux Shuldham’s flagship. “I wish it was in my Power to construe it,” Quincy confesses, unable to read the admiral’s intent. In 1776, from Gloucester, Winthrop Sargent reports that 70 ships passed Cape Ann at sundown. Washington weig

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"The superior weight and influence of the legislative body in a free government, and the hazard to the Executive in a trial of strength with that body, afford a satisfactory security that the negative would generally be employed with great caution; and there would oftener be room for a charge of timidity than of rashness in the exercise of it." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No.73

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire In 1634, the first group of settlers landed in what is now southern Maryland, an event commemorated each year on Maryland Day. In 1776, the Battle of Saint-Pierre, Canada, took place. A battered American force under the command of Colonel Benedict Arnold that had recently been defeated at the Battle of Quebec, attacked the British headquarters at Blais house and took the location. In 1776, at Tybee Island, Georgia, a raiding party of 30 Creek

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"Without supposing the personal essentiality of the main, it is evident that a change of the chief magistrate, at the breaking out of a war, or any similar crisis, for another event of equal merit, would at all times be detrimental to the community; inasmuch as it would substitute inexperience to experience, and would tend to unhinge and set afloat the already settled train of the administration." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 72

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Wendell Phillips In 1629, the first game law was passed in the American colonies by Virginia. In 1664, a charter to colonize Rhode Island was granted to Roger Williams. In 1688, Governor Edmund Andros issued an order placing the militia of the New England colonies under his own direct control. In 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to 10,000 British soldiers in public and private buildings. In 1776, in his order

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First Picture of the moon In 1713, the capture of the Tuscarora tribe’s stronghold of Fort Nohuke by South Carolinian forces ended the Tuscarora raids. The tribe moves northward and joins the Iroquois Confederacy as the Sixth Indian Nation. In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered the “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech in Richmond, Virginia. In 1776, at Cambridge, Washington remains wary. He directs Colonel Henry Knox , the army’s chief of artillery, to lay out a battery at

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