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* 1775 – Fort Ticonderoga captured by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys.
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* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
* 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress ( d. 1775 )
* 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins ; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
* 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
* 1775 – The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
* 1775 – Alexander Anderson, American illustrator ( d. 1870 )
* 1775 – Charlotte of Spain ( d. 1830 )
* 1833 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician ( b. 1775 )
* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.
# Lucien Bonaparte ( 1775 – 1840 )
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The morning chocolate by Pietro Longhi ; Venice, 1775 – 1780.
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* 1775 – Jane Austen, English writer ( d. 1817 )
* 1775 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer ( d. 1834 )
* 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* 1775 – The becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag ( the precursor to the Stars and Stripes ); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
1775 and Fort
When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Allen and the Boys seized the initiative and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
Some companies served in the American Revolutionary War, including notably the 1775 Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, the 1775 invasion of Canada, and 1777 battles at Hubbardton and Bennington.
When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel Benedict Arnold, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important military posts at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George, all in New York.
In 1775, Benedict Arnold and his 1, 100 troops would use Fort Western as a staging area before continuing their journey up the Kennebec to the Battle of Quebec.
In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga, in disrepair, was still manned by a token force.
He captured Fort St. Johns and then Montreal in November 1775, and then advanced to Quebec City where he joined another force under the command of Benedict Arnold.
On June 21, 1775, Marion was commissioned Captain in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment under William Moultrie, with whom he served in June 1776 in the defense of Fort Sullivan ( today known as Fort Moultrie ), in Charleston harbor.
The only ships on the lake following the American retreat from Quebec were a small fleet of lightly armed ships that Benedict Arnold had assembled following the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.
Stanford was founded in 1775 by Benjamin Logan as Logan's Fort, alternately known as St. Asaph the name given it by Logan.
Fort Pownall was burned in 1775 and 1779 by the British themselves, to prevent it from falling into the hands of American rebels.
Tale has it that in 1775, while he was traveling to Fort Duquesne, he and his men camped in this area.
* 1775: Alexander Henry the elder speaks of a pool on the North Saskatchewan similar to 1779 ( see Fort Sturgeon ).
* 1775 – Henry Knox transported fifty-nine captured cannon ( taken from Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Crown Point ) from upstate New York to Boston, MA.
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In November 1775, Washington sent a 25 year-old bookseller-turned-soldier named Henry Knox to bring heavy artillery that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to Boston.
Between November 1775 and February 1776, Colonel Henry Knox and a team of engineers used sledges to retrieve 60 tons of heavy artillery that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga.
Carleton received notice of the start of the rebellion in May 1775, soon followed by the news of the rebel capture of Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Crown Point, and the raid on Fort Saint-Jean.
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