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1888 Blizzard In 1776, Washington prepared for movement. The army must be ready to march “the Instant occasion shall require,” and he urges officers and men to carry as little baggage as possible. He also begins forming what will become his Life Guard, ordering each regiment to send four tall, sober, “neat, and spruce” men to headquarters. From them, Washington will select the men responsible for guarding his person, quarters, papers, and baggage. In 1779, the U.S. Army Corp

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1888 Blizzard In 1776, Washington prepared for movement. The army must be ready to march “the Instant occasion shall require,” and he urges officers and men to carry as little baggage as possible. He also begins forming what will become his Life Guard, ordering each regiment to send four tall, sober, “neat, and spruce” men to headquarters. From them, Washington will select the men responsible for guarding his person, quarters, papers, and baggage. In 1779, the U.S. Army Corp

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"In proportion as the United States assume a national form and a national character, so will the good of the whole be more and more an object of attention, and the government must be a weak one indeed, if it should forget that the good of the whole can only be promoted by advancing the good of each of the parts or members which compose the whole." John Jay, Federalist Paper No. 64

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Sam Steele - New Mexico State University In 1776, General Washington ordered the cannons firing on Boston to stop as the British began loading their transport ships for evacuation. In 1783, the last naval battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought near Cape Canaveral. The USS Alliance, a 36-gun sailing frigate, captained by John Barry, defeated the HMS Sybil by sailing directly for the Sybil. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benj

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Independence Hall In 1753, the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, was completed. In 1776, Washington finished a letter to John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress. He reports that Dorchester Heights is secured. He relays intelligence from Captain Irvine, a Massachusetts mariner who escaped from Boston, describing British confusion and hurried plans for departure. In 1778, The 1st warship of the new American Navy, the 24-gun frigate Alfred c

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"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn." James Madison

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"It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust." James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 62

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