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January 14 | This Day in U.S. Military History  Jan 14, 2014 ... His son Benedict moved to Newport, and was governor of the ... He was employed in a drug shop at Norwich until 1762, when he moved to New Haven and established himself in business as druggist and ... A few days later Arnold captured St. John's. .... He lived extravagantly, and became involved in debt.
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Benedict Arnold  Mar 3, 2013 ... His son Benedict moved to Newport, and was governor of the ... He was employed in a drug shop at Norwich until 1762, when he ... to New Haven and established himself in business as druggist and .... A few days later Arnold captured St. John's. .... He lived extravagantly, and became involved in debt.
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Benedict Arnold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Nov 8, 2005 ... The name Benedict Arnold has become an eponym for "traitor" in the United States. ... 4 West Point and later; 5 Legacy; 6 Footnotes; 7 See also; 8 External links ... himself in business as druggist and bookseller in New Haven, Connecticut. ... During this time he brought his sister Hannah to New Haven and...
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Benedict Arnold facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  While visiting his home in New Haven, Arnold heard of a British attack on ... Although he got there too late to prevent the destruction of the supplies, he did force the ... He was cleared of the charge, but his anger at the accusation moved him to ... on September 21, 1780, with documents that showed Arnold was a traitor.
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Benedict Arnold - Salem Press  Military general and traitor. Born: January 14 ... from school. He later served as an apprentice in the Norwich apothecary ... He moved to New Haven,. Connecticut, in 1762 and became a druggist and bookseller there. He also acquired ... nold's next major military accomplishment came in the Battle of Saratoga. (September...
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NEW HAVEN COLONY - EARLY PLANTERS - dunham - wilcox - trott  THE COLONY OF NEW HAVEN To its absorption into ... the year of the first mention of their name in the Records of New Haven Colony, ... 1665" written in ink].
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Boss Tweed - - Biography.com  Jul 6, 2016 ... Born in New York City in 1823, Boss Tweed was a city alderman by the time he ... of power in Tammany Hall (the seat of New York City's Democratic Party), ... Before long, he escaped from custody and fled, first to Cuba and then to Spain. ... to the United States, where he was confined to a New York City jail.
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Attorney General: Edwards Pierrepont | AG | Department of Justice  Nov 4, 2014 ... Edwards Pierrepont was born in North Haven, Connecticut, on March 4, 1817. ... In 1862 Pierrepont was made a member of the Military Commission ... In 1876 he became Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain, serving until December 1, 1877. ... Huntington was born in New York City.
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Josiah Bartlett - Wikipedia  Josiah Bartlett was an American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was later Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and Governor of the state. ... Bartlett became active in the political affairs of Kingston, and in 1765 he was...
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May 2010 - South Williamstown Community Association  May 30, 2010 ... Because of that August fiasco near Bennington, Burgoyne's once formidable army .... If you walk up the path to the original site of the redoubt you will be .... called in Vermont, that once served as the sign of the Catamount Tavern, ... This was a rowdy gang of local farmers led by Ethan Allen, bitter foe of New...
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A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped ...  James Benajmin Covey, a former slave, was only 14 years old when asked to ... Gibbs desperately needed an interpreter and this young man, who had been ... On July 2, 1839, the Africans seized the schooner Amistad from Portuguese ... Americans captured the ship on Long Island and took it to New London, Connecticut.
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New Amsterdam surrendered to the English | History Today  New York City started its glittering history in a modest way as the Dutch ... Manhattan was taken on September 8th, 1664. ... Amsterdam, which became a busy trading centre between North America, the Caribbean and Europe. ... A new colonial governor, Peter Stuyvesant, arrived to take charge in New Amsterdam in 1647.
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Nathan Hale volunteers to spy behind British lines - Sep 10, 1776 ...  Disguised as a Dutch schoolmaster, the Yale University-educated Hale slipped ... When the city was set on fire on September 20, 1776, British soldiers were put on ... After being led to the gallows, legend holds that Hale was asked if he had any .... Before they were finally caught, the Gallegos killed and sexually assaulted at...
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Nathan Hale - RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Black - Howe Family  September 1769 - Nathan and his older brother Enoch begin studies at Yale College. ... January 1776 - Nathan visits family in Coventry for what is probably the last time. ... ?I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,? ..... support for the American cause by blaming the loyalist cousin Samuel for the betrayal.
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Noah Webster History - Noah Webster House  Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758 in the West Division of Hartford, ... At the time, few people went to college, but Webster enjoyed learning so much that ... The family lived in New Haven, and then moved to Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Chapter 7 - National Archives and Records Administration  It will examine his defection to the Soviet Union in 1959, his subsequent return to ... This occurred 2 months before Lee was born in New Orleans on October 18, ... They moved shortly after Robert joined the Marines; they lived for a time with ...... My request for the revoking of my American citizenship is made only after the...
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Newburgh Conspiracy  George Washington's Mount Vernon  The Newburgh Conspiracy was a plan by Continental Army officers to ... Congress, in the process perhaps saving the fate of the American Revolution. ... unprotectedor refuse to disband after a peace treaty ending the war was signed. ... Quoted in Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2010), 434-6...
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Boss Tweed delivered to authorities - Nov 23, 1876 - HISTORY.com  Tweed became a powerful figure in Tammany HallNew York City's ... In 1876, he was arrested by Spanish police, who reportedly recognized him from a famous ... Contrary to the majority of his Congressional colleagues, Rutledge .... a lawyer before winning a seat in the New Hampshire state legislature in 1828, while his.
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The First Real Biographer - The New York Times  Aug 19, 2001 ... But they kept running into each other afterward, and Johnson warmed to ... and then to dart down the nearest alley and buy himself a quickie. ... He was also consumed with get-rich schemes and with dreams of a seat in ... Not only did Boswell invent the biography as we know it, he was also, in effect, the...
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Florida History Network - On this day in Florida history - Florida ...  March 30, 1962: Feds say Castro sent cocaine to demoralize U.S. ... Read the Associated Press story in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal: ... On Easter Sunday in 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon spotted the Florida mainland for ... The explorer planned to claim the new land -- which he thought might be an...
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Milton Agonistes - The New York Times  Apr 6, 1997 ... he year 1660 was not a good one for John Milton. ... He lost his position as Latin secretary and had to go into hiding. He was arrested and imprisoned for about a month, and two of his ... While this Milton is historically grounded, he very unhistorically flees London, escaping to New England to establish a...