Thomas Paine: “But where, says some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you. Friend, he reigns above…”
Quote from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense: “But where, says some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not …
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The Marines are first formed as an act of the Continental Congress
On this date in history, the US Marine Corps was founded in 1775. At the very start of the American Revolution, there was an act …
The Continental Congress officially established the Continental Army
Interestingly, the United States (U.S.) Army traces its lineage to the American Army of the 1780s, not the Continental Army that fought the American Revolution.[3] …
Four Days Prior to “The Shot Heard Around the World”, John Hancock calls for a Day of Fasting and Prayer in Massachusetts
Four days before the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” John Hancock circulates this declaration to the citizens of Massachusetts: “In circumstances dark as these, it …
Edmund Burke’s Speech ‘On Conciliation with the Colonies’
Edmund Burke (1729–97) was a member of British Parliament at the time of this speech. He was elected as the representative from Bristol in 1774. …
Alexander Hamilton: The sacred rights of mankind…are written, as with a sun beam… by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
When Loyalist writings began to appear in New York newspapers in 1775, nineteen-year-old Hamilton responded with an essay defending the colonists’ right of revolution. Still …
The Continental Association
On October 20, 1774, the First Continental Congress creates the Continental Association, which calls for a complete ban on all trade between America and Great …
The First United American Republic is Established by 12 Colonies (Georgia joined in 1775)
The First United American Republic is founded: United Colonies of North America: 13 British Colonies United in Congress was founded by 12 colonies on September 5th, 1774 (Georgia …
Joseph Priestley Discovers Oxygen
On this day in 1774, dissenting British minister Joseph Priestley, author of Observations on Civil Liberty and the Nature and Justice of the War with …