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Hace 1 día · In 1779, he proposed gradual voluntary training and resettlement to the Virginia legislature, and three years later drafted legislation allowing slaveholders to free their own slaves.
Hace 1 día · In 1779, the Continental Army forced the hostile indigenous people out of upstate New York when Washington sent an army under John Sullivan which destroyed 40 evacuated Iroquois villages in central and western New York.
Hace 1 día · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
Hace 6 días · Januaru 6-9, 1779 at Sunbury, Georgia - On January 6-9, a 3-day siege of 2,000 British and Indian forces, commanded by Maj. Gen. Augustine Prevost, captured Sunbury and its 200-man Patriot garrison. Casualties were light on both sides. Conclusion: British Victory.
Hace 2 días · On July 20, 1779 Brant and about ninety Tories and Iroquois Indians swept through the Neversink Valley settlements of Peenpack and Mahackamack destroying farms, a school, a church, and other buildings, leaving a path of misery and bringing great fear to the frontier.
Hace 5 días · Derby’s horse Bridget won the first running of the Oaks in 1779. At a celebration after the race, Bunbury and Derby suggested a similar race for both colts and fillies, to begin the following year. Reputedly, a coin toss followed, and Derby won the honour of naming the race after himself.
Hace 5 días · In 1779, explorers James Robertson and John Donelson led a party of Overmountain Men to the former site of French Lick, and constructed Fort Nashborough. The settlement was named for Francis Nash, the brigadier general and American Revolutionary War hero who was killed at the Battle of Germantown in Pennsylvania two years earlier on ...
