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Our goal is to positively influence our readers by presenting accurate, reliable information regarding the formative stages of our country as well as current national events. About Lux Libertas...
GEORGE WASHINGTON to JOHN HANCOCK Head Quarters, Newton, December 27, 1776. “Sir: I have the pleasure of Congratulating you upon the success of an enterprize which I had formed against a Detachment of the Enemy lying in Trenton, and which was executed yesterday Morning. The Evening of the 25th I ordered the Troops intended for [...]
http://www.unionsentinel.com/news/2008/1211/front_page/005.html By Ethelene Dyer Jones Many of us have ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War. Whether they were with General Washington at Valley Forge or at Cowpens or King’s Mountain or any of the other notable battlegrounds of our War for Independence, they were there to lay down their very lives as the price [...]
Stamp Act, act introduced by the British prime minister George Grenville and passed by the British Parliament in 1765 as a means of raising money in the American colonies. The Stamp Act required the colonists to buy and place stamps on all legal documents, licenses, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards. Great Britain had [...]
The Siege of Yorktown—the last major battle of the Revolutionary War—ends as Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrenders to American and French forces at Yorktown, Va. The siege lasted 20 days. Cornwallis’s surrender resulted in the resignation of the British prime minister Lord Frederick North and brought to power more conciliatory leaders. The latter accepted the terms [...]
