• The second Trumbull was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate and was one of the first of 13 frigates authorized by the Continental Congress on...
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  • The first USS Trumbull was a row galley built in 1776 at Skenesboro, New York, for service in General Benedict Arnold's fleet on Lake Champlain. She was...
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  • USS Trumbull may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Trumbull (1776 row galley), a shoal-draft row galley built on Lake Champlain...
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    grave John Hancock memorial James Otis' grave Paul Revere memorial USS Trumbull (1776) depicted on the 1780 grave of Lt. Jabez Smith, killed aboard the...
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    August 1781 of the American 28-gun ship Trumbull, another of the Continental Navy's best frigates. Trumbull had a crew of nearly 200 men. Iris captured...
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    (DE-1095/FF-1095/FFT-1095) USS Trumbull (1776 galley, 1776 frigate, 1799) USS Trumpeter (DE-180, DE-279) USS Trumpetfish (SS-425) USS Trutta (SS-421) USS Truxtun (1842...
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    Benedict Arnold's Navy. New York: McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-146806-0. OCLC 255396879. Media related to USS Washington (galley, 1776) at Wikimedia Commons...
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    aboard USS Erie (1813) USS Fair American (1812) USS Fairfield (1828) USS Falmouth (1827) USS Fly (1776), burned to prevent capture November 1777 USS Frolic (1813)...
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    a letter to Thomas Jefferson, "[Bushnell] came to me in 1776 recommended by Governor Trumbull (now dead) and other respectable characters…Although I wanted...
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    the Trumbull was repeatedly raked by Monk. Now unmanageable, and more than a third of the crew wounded or dead, the Trumbull surrendered. Trumbull was...
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    at Fort Trumbull. The first Fort Trumbull was an earthwork built 1775–1777 that took part in the Revolutionary War. The second Fort Trumbull was built...
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    Captain Nicholson of USS Trumbull, for the Continental Navy. Almost immediately after its departure from Philadelphia, Trumbull was confronted by a British...
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    likes of John Adams, who served as the Chairman of the Naval Committee until 1776, when Commodore Esek Hopkins received instruction from the Continental Congress...
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  • American Revolution, East Haddam, CT James Trumbull, Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636–1776, Connecticut General Assembly, Lockwood & Brainard...
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    commissioned Captain in the Continental Navy 10 October 1776. He commanded Defense, Trumbull, and Virginia, and when blockaded at Baltimore, Maryland...
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    American Revolution (redirect from 1776 usa)
    British from Boston, leaving the Patriots in control of each colony. In July 1776, the Second Continental Congress took the role of governing a new nation...
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    USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned...
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    South Carolina military leader, and member of both houses of Congress John Trumbull, artist, whose paintings inform the collective memory of the early American...
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    Battle of Valcour Bay, was a naval engagement that took place on October 11, 1776, on Lake Champlain. The main action took place in Valcour Bay, a narrow strait...
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    been named in honor of Hancock. The U.S. Navy has named vessels USS Hancock and USS John Hancock; a World War II Liberty ship was also named in his honor...
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    Trenton has been depicted by many artists since Trenchard. In 1792, John Trumbull created a charcoal sketch, Bridge and Arch at Trenton. Between 1823 and...
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    unsubstantiated by any contemporaneous proof. Grace Rogers Cooper writes "In 1792, Trumbull painted thirteen stars in a circle in his General George Washington at...
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    the earliest known example of this flag to be 1792 in a painting by John Trumbull. Despite the 1777 resolution, the early years of American independence...
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    the victory at the Battle of Trenton early in the morning of December 26, 1776, General George Washington of the Continental Army and his council of war...
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    William Howe. The Continental Army, reduced to only 9,600 men by January 1776 due to expiring short-term enlistments, had to be supplemented with militia...
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    Treaty of 1776, Jefferson encouraged the role of France as an economic and military partner to the United States to weaken British influence. In 1776, Latouche...
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    Havre Trumbull Providence-class 28 1776–1781 captured by the British Virginia 28 1776–1778 captured by the British Warren Randolph-class 32 1776–1779 destroyed...
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    at the Bridgeport—Trumbull town line and continues into Trumbull. The limited access divided expressway ends in northern Trumbull, but Route 25 continues...
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    thanks written by George Washington, and statements from Colonel John Trumbull and Judge Thomas Grosvenor in Putnam's defense. Historian Harold Murdock...
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    September 1776) "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.": 72  — Nathan Hale, American soldier and spy (22 September 1776), before...
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