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In 1777, Simcoe sought to form a Loyalist regiment of free blacks from Boston, but instead was offered the command of the Queen's Rangers, a well-trained light infantry unit comprising 11 companies of 30 men, 1 grenadier and 1 hussar, and the rest light infantry.
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1777 and Simcoe
Simcoe wrote a book on his experiences with the Rangers, titled A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War, which was published in 1787.
1777 and sought
* The Aunt Betty Frazee House is a rare historic treasure, the simple farmhouse of a colonial-era couple Gershom and Elizabeth Frazee, the latter of whom was approached by British generals in 1777 who sought to buy bread she'd been baking that day.
The British sought to gain control with the Saratoga campaign in 1777, and frequently raided into the southern reaches of the department to interfere with the movement of military goods and personnel.
The British had originally sought to keep American Indians out of the war, but in 1777 Lieutenant Governor Hamilton received instructions to recruit and arm Indian war parties to raid the Kentucky settlements, opening a western front in the war with the rebel colonists.
1777 and form
Gillispie puts it as early as 1777 when Joseph observed laundry drying over a fire incidentally form pockets that billowed upwards.
Coined in English 1819, the word dermatology originated in the form of the words dermologie ( in French, 1764 ) and, a little later, dermatologia ( in Latin, 1777 ).
It was substantially reorganized in 1776 and 1777, with land swapped with both Stafford and Westmoreland Counties to form the modern boundaries.
In 1777 parts of Surry County and Washington District ( now Washington County, Tennessee ) were combined to form Wilkes County.
In 1777, Vergennes informed the Americans ' commissioners that France acknowledged the United States, and was willing to form an offensive and defensive alliance with the new state.
He refers to the case of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal ( 1777 ), which existed in an earlier form, also by Sheridan, in a two-part play The Slanderers and Sir Peter Teazel, which he argues contain the same type of modifications as is found in the Henry VI plays.
He helped form the new government of Virginia, and was elected Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1777.
The castle courtyard was grassed over to form a circle in 1777 and became known as the " Eye of the Ridings " because it was used for the election of Members of Parliament for York.
The estate of Foots Cray Place was rebuilt about 1754 for Bourchier Cleeve, on the site of the manor, as a Palladian mansion that was attributed to Isaac Ware ; it was illustrated in this form in Vitruvius Britannicus iv ( 1777, pls.
He was an aide to General Rutherford in the Indian campaign in 1776 and was one of four commissioners appointed by Governor Caswell to form a treaty with the Indians in 1777.
In the late 18th century Oliver Goldsmith ( She Stoops to Conquer, 1773 ) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( The Rivals, 1775 ; The School for Scandal, 1777 ) revived the form.
Members of the congregation of Old Kilpatrick Parish Church left in 1777 to form a Burgher Secession congregation, which built a new church in 1781 at Kilpatrick Craigs at the foot of Cochno Road.
He served several terms in the legislature, including periods in the North Carolina House of Commons from 1777 to 1781, the North Carolina Senate form 1781 to 1782, and in the House of Commons again from 1783 to 1792.
1777 and Loyalist
Found on the NY GenWeb Rensselaer County, The Loyalist Muster Roll of 1777 by Capt Samuel McKay at Chateauguay, Quebec, 20TH DECEMBER 1777.
The Loyalist newspaper, New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, reported on January 17, 1777, that the American losses at Princeton had been 400 killed and wounded.
Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the uncle of Matthew Thornton, a suspected Loyalist who was tried for treason related to actions just before the Battle of Bennington in 1777.
In October 1777, William Franklin, the son of Benjamin Franklin, may have been jailed in the Litchfield jail because he was a Loyalist.
Butler's Rangers ( 1777 – 1784 ) was a British provincial regiment composed of Loyalists ( or " Tories ") in the American Revolutionary War, raised by Loyalist John Butler.
He was initially a Loyalist during the American Revolution when he left the Pennsylvania militia in 1776 and joined the British Army under General Howe in 1777.
As one of the most active Loyalist regiments in the Canadian department, it was instrumental in the siege of Fort Stanwix during the expedition of Colonel St. Leger down the Mohawk River Valley in the summer of 1777.
Lee was a British Loyalist and hence vacated his house during the first days of the American Revolution ; he returned however in 1777.
1777 and regiment
Schuyler took the measure in April 1777 of sending a large regiment under Colonel Peter Gansevoort to rehabilitate Fort Stanwix in the upper Mohawk valley as a step in defending against British movements in that area.
While he appears to have given up command of the regiment after that campaign, he apparently participated in some capacity in the 1777 Saratoga campaign, for he is depicted in the painting of the Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga by John Trumbull ,< ref >
In 1777 he entered the University of Erfurt, but two years later joined an Austrian regiment quartered there.
As John Burgoyne's expedition neared the Hudson River during the summer of 1777, Colonel John McCrea took up his duty with a regiment of the Albany County militia.
In December 1776, he led a well-drilled regiment of the Essex County militia to New York, where General George Washington took notice and offered Pickering the position of adjutant general of the Continental Army in 1777.
On 25 December 1777, the 76th was again re-raised, as the 76th Regiment of Foot ( Macdonald's Highlanders ), by Colonel John MacDonell of Lochgarry, in the West of Scotland and Western Isles, as a Scottish Light Infantry regiment.
On 25 December 1777 the 76th was again re-raised as the 76th Regiment of Foot ( Macdonald's Highlanders ) by Colonel John MacDonell of Lochgarry, in the West of Scotland and Western Isles, as a Scottish Light Infantry regiment.
The 76th Regiment of Foot ( Macdonald's Highlanders ), sometimes referred to as ' McDonnell's Highlanders ' after its colonel, John MacDonell of Lochgarry, was a Scottish Light Infantry regiment raised in the west of Scotland and western isles of Scotland on 25 December 1777, by the Clan Macdonald.
In late July 1777, the regiment contributed Captain Richard Leroult and 100 men to the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
In 1777 the regiment moved to Philadelphia and in the following year took part in the Battle of Monmouth.
The Corps of Light Infantry was an elite, seasonal combat organization drafted in each of the years between 1777 and 1781 from the light infantry companies of each regiment in Washington's army.
In this regiment young Frederick Philipse Robinson received an ensigncy in February 1777, and on 1 September 1778 he was appointed to the 17th Foot, which he joined in October following.
In the Battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777 his entire regiment was killed, captured, or scattered.
This regiment has no connection, except the name, with the 77th Foot of 1777.
In 1777, he recruited a regiment for the Continental Army known as Grayson's Regiment, and served as its colonel through the Philadelphia campaign.
In 1777 the regiment was part of the disastrous expedition to Saratoga where it took part in a number of major engagements.
This created a 500-verst undefended border and in summer of 1777, the Khopyor regiment in addition to the remnants of the Volga Cossacks and a Vladimir Dragoon regiment were re-settled into the Northern Caucausus to build the Azov-Mozdok defence line.
In 1777 and early 1778 he served as paymaster of the Rhode Island regiment of the Continental Army.
He was born in Bayreuth and travelled to New York in 1777 as the chief surgeon for the Ansbach regiment of Hessian troops fighting for King George III of the United Kingdom.
Colonel Henry Ludington ( 1739 – 1817 ) was the commander of the 7th Regiment of the Dutchess County Militia, a volunteer regiment of local men who fought in the Battle of Ridgefield in April, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War.
The regiment was part of the 5, 000 British and Hessian force, under the command of Gen. John Burgoyne, that surrendered to the American rebels in the 1777 Saratoga Campaign and remained imprisoned until 1783.
During the Saratoga campaign of 1777, he led the bulk of his regiment in the withdrawal from Fort Ticonderoga.
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