An Army Truly Continental: Expanding Participation While the Continental Army in the north took shape in 1776, the colonies to the south also turned to military preparations. The process began, much as it had in New England, with the formation of forces by revolutionary governments to oppose British threats in the immediate vicinity of each…
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Federalist No 37, Concerning the Difficulties of the Convention…
…in Devising a Proper Form of Government From the Daily Advertiser Friday, January 11, 1788 To the People of the State of New York: IN REVIEWING the defects of the existing Confederation, and showing that they cannot be supplied by a government of less energy than that before the public, several of the most important…
Arnold’s Expedition to Virginia
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 31.—This morning, his Majesty’s ship Iris arrived at New York from the Chesapeake, with the following account of the proceedings of the British forces in Virginia, under Brigadier-General Arnold:—”The fleet having been separated by a hard gale of…
South Carolina
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 17. –The Provincial Congress of South Carolina met on the 11th instant [January 11, 1775], and have continued in session, Sundays not excepted, until to-day. They have shut up the courts of law; no process is to issue…
Motion in Marblehead, Mass.
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The people of Marblehead, Massachusetts, met to-day and resolved, that, as a great number of the inhabitants of that town may soon be called forth, to assist in defending the charter and constitution of that province, as well as…