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The United States Postal Service (USPS) has released a new series of stamps honoring the 250th anniversary of the founding of ...
ISBN: 1911628542 Black Patriots in Arms Long deliberately neglected, the role of the 5,000 or so Black Americans who served in the ranks during in the Revolutionary ... of African Americans in the ...
In response, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, appointing General George Washington as its commander. Men from all walks of life answered the call ...
Patrick Henry introduced three resolutions to the Second Virginia Convention when he delivered his famous “Liberty or Death” ...
Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...
He volunteered to serve in a local militia company, the Kentish Guards, at the rank ... October 1775 to approve troop requests for an army of 20,372 men. But strictly speaking, the Continental ...