Sunday, May 5, 2024


Tomorrow in
American Revolutionary War History


1775 - New Jersey Royal Governor William Franklin wrote that the violence at Lexington and Concord greatly diminishes the chances of reconciliation between Britain and her North American colonies.

1778 - Continental Army Colonel Ethan Allen returned to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange. He had been captured by the British on September 27, 1776.


Revolutionary War Quotes

"I am wearied to death all day with a variety of perplexing circumstances, disturbed at the conduct of the militia, whose behavior and want of discipline has done great injury to the other troops, who never had officers, except in a few instances, worth the bread they eat."
- George Washington, in a letter to his nephew on September 30, 1776



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