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    Dunmore's Proclamation is a historical document signed on November 7, 1775, by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, royal governor of the British colony...
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    document, Dunmore's Proclamation, offering freedom to slaves who fought for the British Crown against Patriot rebels in Virginia. Dunmore fled to New...
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  • In 1779, Sir Henry Clinton issued the Philipsburg Proclamation, expanding Dunmore's Proclamation and promising freedom to any person enslaved by a Patriot...
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    Slaves". These enslaved men were designated as "Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment." Dunmore's proclamation angered the colonists, as they turned many African...
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    Revolutionary masters and joined Dunmore's ranks. The governor formed them into the Royal Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment. During...
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    willing to bear arms." Like the 1775 House of Commons proposal, Dunmore's Proclamation was intended to scare the white slaveholders of Virginia and to...
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    CLINTON The proclamation extended the scope of Dunmore's Proclamation, issued four years earlier by Virginia's last Royal governor, Lord Dunmore, granting...
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    Lord Dunmore's War, also known as Dunmore's War, was a brief conflict in the fall of 1774 between the British Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo...
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    III's Commanding General Henry Clinton broadened Dunmore's proclamation with his Philipsburg Proclamation. For all colonial slaves who fled their rebel masters...
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    Revolution: John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, British royal governor of the Colony of Virginia, signs Dunmore's Proclamation, declaring martial law and offering...
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  • of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester. (For more background, see Dunmore's Proclamation, a 1775 promise by the royal governor of the British Colony of Virginia...
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    March 11, 2013. "Lord Dunmore's Proclamation". Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2013. "Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment –...
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    Japan) under martial law via Proclamation No. 29, dated 21 September 1944 and enforced the following day at 09:00 PST. Proclamation No. 30 was issued on 23...
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    During the American Revolutionary War, Lord Dunmore, governor of the Colony of Virginia issued a proclamation in 1775 that granted freedom to those who...
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    freedom in exchange for military service as per Virginia Governor Dunmore's Proclamation of 1775, promising freedom to Blacks who deserted their Patriot...
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    coverage was indifferent. Also at issue was the significance of Dunmore's Proclamation as cited by Silverstein, with Wilentz asserting that the event was...
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    instances. Dunmore was charged with a design to employ Native Americans ("savages") against the Virginians as early as 1774. Dunmore's Proclamation in November...
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    issuing proclamations of freedom to their slaves. In the November 1775 document known as Dunmore's Proclamation Virginia royal governor, Lord Dunmore recruited...
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  • in 1776. Lord Dunmore in absentia led the military opposition to the rebels in Virginia. He had already issued Dunmore's Proclamation, offering freedom...
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    American War of Independence, which occurred between 1776-1783. Lord Dunmore's Proclamation resulted in several thousand black slaves running away from the...
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    Sense of their Duty, to His MAJESTY'S Crown and Dignity. — Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, November 7, 1775 About 800 men joined up; some helped rout the...
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    (October 13) Snow Campaign (November–December) Dunmore's Proclamation issued by Virginia royal governor Lord Dunmore, offering freedom to enslaved men held by...
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    rebels freedom if they joined their forces (See Dunmore's Proclamation and Philipsburg Proclamation). Approximately three thousand Black Loyalists were...
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  • May 20, 1774". American Battlefield Trust. Retrieved 2024-12-03. "Dunmore's Proclamation ‑ The Promise, Significance & Impact". HISTORY. 2023-12-15. Retrieved...
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  • Cornelius coincidentally escaped from Corlies' property the day after Dunmore's proclamation and he joined British forces. Titus observed the Quakers' unsuccessful...
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    the New England colonies alienated the Canadians. In Virginia, Dunmore's Proclamation on November 7, 1775, promised freedom to any slaves who fled their...
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  • Loyalists, who had escaped and fought for the British following Dunmore's Proclamation during the American War of Independence. The 1787 expedition was...
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    general Henry Clinton, in North Carolina, from slaves responding to Dunmore's proclamation. (A pioneer in the British Army was a soldier who built bridges...
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    of Return Dunmore's Proclamation Gullah Gumbe Jamaican Maroon Creole History of Sierra Leone Outline of Sierra Leone Philipsburg Proclamation Rough Crossings...
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