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Castillo de San Marcos

Full view of Castillo de San Marcos Castillo de San Marcos is a beautifully preserved Spanish Fort in St. Augustine, Florida. This fort was built by the Spanish between 1672 and 1695, when it was finally completed. Before 1672, several wooden forts had been on the site, and the area had been attacked repeatedly until the Spanish government decided it needed a stronger fort. The fort originally protected the sea route for treasure ships as well as guarding the St. Augustine

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Castillo de San Marcos

Full view of Castillo de San Marcos Castillo de San Marcos is a beautifully preserved Spanish Fort in St. Augustine, Florida. This fort was built by the Spanish between 1672 and 1695, when it was finally completed. Before 1672, several wooden forts had been on the site, and the area had been attacked repeatedly until the Spanish government decided it needed a stronger fort. The fort originally protected the sea route for treasure ships as well as guarding the St. Augustine

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M&M's were initially made for the US military after Forrest Mars Sr. (the son of Mars founder Franklin Clarence Mars) traveled in Europe during the Spanish Civil War and observed soldiers eating chocolate pellets covered in a sugar shell. He returned to the States and perfected it by 1941 before selling it to the US military. By 1947, it was commercially available to the public and has been popular ever since then.

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“The day before yesterday the declaration of American independency was voted by twelve colonies agreeable to the sense of the constituents, and New-York was silent, till their new convention (which sits next week) expressed their assent, of which we have some doubt. Thus the issue is joined; and it is our comfortable reflection, that if by struggling we can avoid the servile subjection which Britain demanded, we remain a free and happy people; but if, through the frowns of Pr

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George Clinton, 4th VP of the US In 1775, the Siege of Boston began. In 1776, Washington focused on readiness. Writing to the New York Committee of Safety , he asks what method exists—and how quickly—to assemble 2,000 to 2,500 militia if a British fleet appears. He proposes a coordinated system of lookouts and signal relays along the harbor. In 1776, Washington was also troubled by supply. In a letter to Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull Sr., he reports alarming ret

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Shirley Temple in Stand Up and Cheer In 1764, the English Parliament banned the American colonies from printing paper money. In 1775, the shot heard round the world was first fired on Lexington Green in Lexington, MA. No one knows for sure who fired first, but it sparked the American Revolution, which changed human history forever and brought the idea of self-government to the world. In 1776, it was the first anniversary of Lexington and Concord. Washington nods to the occas

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“I am sorry for this occasion of writing so boldly, and of being obliged to come to such Resolutions, but the Safety of myself & the Country I have the honor to be a Native requires some Resolutions, I am free and Determin’d to be so & will not willingly, and quietly subject myself to Slavery.” John Hancock, Letter to his agents in October of 1965

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