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Only known portrait of Thomas Neale In 1691, Thomas Neale granted an English patent for the American postal service In 1776, Preparation defines today’s General Orders . Washington directs that every regiment be fully supplied with 24 rounds of ammunition per man, each round accounted for through a chain of signed receipts, with deficiencies fined from a soldier’s pay. In 1776. In the first cruise of a Continental Navy squadron, Commodore Esek Hopkins sails from Philadelphi

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Only known portrait of Thomas Neale In 1691, Thomas Neale granted an English patent for the American postal service In 1776, Preparation defines today’s General Orders . Washington directs that every regiment be fully supplied with 24 rounds of ammunition per man, each round accounted for through a chain of signed receipts, with deficiencies fined from a soldier’s pay. In 1776. In the first cruise of a Continental Navy squadron, Commodore Esek Hopkins sails from Philadelphi

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Benjamin Franklin In 1741, Benjamin Franklin began publishing "The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America". In 1760, Cherokee Indians held hostage at Fort St. George by South Carolina Governor Lyttleton were killed in revenge for Indian attacks on frontier settlements that broke a peace treaty of December 1759. In 1776, Washington convened a Council of War to consider an assault on British-held Boston. He reports that reinforcem

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"The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether heredity, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 47

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Henry Highland Garnet In 1733, James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists founded the colony of Georgia. This was the 13th and last colony of the original States and was named in honor of King George II. In 1776, in his General Orders , Washington expresses astonishment that regimental officers have discharged men without authority. Washington warns that any colonel or commanding officer who repeats this will be arrested and tried. In 1776 , John Hancock , president of the Contine

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Emma Goldman In 1753, Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, began admitting patients; it was cofounded by Benjamin Franklin . In 1766, the Stamp Act was declared unconstitutional in Virginia. In 1768, the Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1768, drafted by Samuel Adams, was sent by the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the other colonies' Houses of Assembly. In 1776, Washington rides out early from Cambridge to inspect the frozen heights sout

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"No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded." James Madison, Federalist Paper No.47

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