Revolution: Adams, Armstrong, Bradford, Butler, Crawford, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Jefferson, Luzerne, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Potter, Sullivan...
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Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps Ansted, West Virginia – David T. Ansted (geologist and landowner) Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel...
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Congress". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 19 (2). University of Pennsylvania Press: 197–207. JSTOR 20083644. Greene, Jack P. (March...
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experienced in Congressional leadership. The dean of the delegation was Franklin of Pennsylvania. He had become a celebrity in the French Court, but he was also...
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William Alexander, Lord Stirling (category People from Bernards Township, New Jersey)
on the western shores of New York Bay. When Washington and the French comte de Rochambeau took their conjoined armies south for the climactic Battle of...
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efforts of his friend Claude-Carloman de Rulhière, he was recruited by the Marquis de Lafayette and Benjamin Franklin, who he met in spring 1777, for service...
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Elizabeth Willing Powel (category People from colonial Pennsylvania)
John Hare Powel (Master's thesis). University of Pennsylvania. Isaacson, Walter (2003). Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-6084-8...
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Galloway and John Dickinson from the Pennsylvania. Peyton Randolph of Virginia was its president. Benjamin Franklin put forward the idea of such a meeting...
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September. Around sixteen thousand soldiers under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau quickly converged there and defeated Cornwallis in the siege...
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French strongholds at Port Royal and at Quebec, the latter commanded by Comte de Frontenac, the governor of New France. Phips conquered the capital of Acadia...
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Detroit (redirect from Detroit Township, Michigan)
Détroit, after Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, Secretary of State of the Navy under Louis XIV. Sainte-Anne-de-Détroit was founded on July 26 and...
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Franklin returns to Philadelphia after seven years as the U.S. Ambassador to France and prepares to take office as the new Governor of Pennsylvania....
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1740s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Provinces. December 7 – Benjamin Franklin forms the Pennsylvania Associators, the first militia in the colony of Pennsylvania, which had no standing militia...
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1760s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Fredrica Löf, Swedish actress (d. 1813) October 17 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist, political theorist (d. 1825) October...
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