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Wikimedia Commons/John Steeple Davis Fort Ticonderoga’s Bloodless Capture Fort Ticonderoga guarded key water routes between New York and Canada in 1775. The British kept...
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Wikimedia Commons/John Steeple Davis Fort Ticonderoga’s Bloodless Capture Fort Ticonderoga guarded key water routes between New York and Canada in 1775. The British kept...
Wikimedia Commons/Deisenbe Fort Mose Fort Mose became the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States in 1738. Spanish officials named...
Shutterstock Wall Street’s Dutch Origins The Dutch built a wall in 1653 where Wall Street now runs. They called it “Het Cingel,” meaning “the...
Wikimedia Commons/.Thomas Birch The USS Constitution On August 19, 1812, the USS Constitution met the HMS Guerriere in open water southeast of Halifax. Captain...
Wikimedia Commons/Thomas Carr The Star-Spangled Banner (National Anthem, 1931) Francis Scott Key never meant to write America’s national anthem. He was just a lawyer...
Wikimedia Commons/Walter William May The Gaspee Affair of 1772 The Gaspee was supposed to stop smuggling in Rhode Island waters. Instead, it became the...
Shutterstock The Story of Sybil Ludington Sybil Ludington was born on April 5, 1761, in Fredericksburg, New York, now called Ludingtonville. At just 16...
Wikimedia Commons/Famartin Paterson Great Falls Fresh from becoming Treasury Secretary, Hamilton had a bold plan in 1792. He wanted America to stop buying everything...
Wikimedia Commons/Benjamin Tanner Battle of Plattsburgh, Lake Champlain The largest British force of the entire War of 1812 wasn’t heading for Washington or Baltimore....
Wikimedia Commons/Pittsburgh Photo Engraving Co.; unknown artist The Siege of Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania In 1763, Fort Pitt became a powder keg when Delaware, Shawnee,...