Phillip played a leading part in the capture of the Spanish ship San Agustín ( 1768 ), on 19 April 1777, off Santa Catarina.

Walnut Hill ( Pawlings Farm ): The land known as the Perkiomen Peninsula, and particularly the Pawling Farm, played an essential role in the Valley Forge winter encampment of 1777 – 1778.

However, poor British campaign planning for 1777 contributed to the failure of John Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign, which played a major role in the entry of France into the war.

In 1777 an " all-England " team played Hambledon at the ground.

* Benedict Arnold was a leading force in the early days of the war, participating in the 1775 capture of Fort Ticonderoga and the invasion of Quebec, and played a crucial role in the 1777 Battles of Saratoga, in which he was severely wounded.

* Moses Boggs ( born about 1777 ).

Their son Moses Greenleaf ( 1777 – 1834 ), Simon's older brother, became a distinguished surveyor and map-maker in Maine.

In July 1777, Solomon married Rachael Franks, the daughter of Moses Franks, of a prominent colonial period Jewish family that included loyalist and revolutionary sympathizers.

In that battle, on August 17, 1777, Brigadier General John Stark and 1, 400 New Hampshire men, aided by Colonels Warner and Herrick of Vermont, Simonds of Massachusetts, and Moses Nichols of New Hampshire, defeated two detachments of General Burgoyne's British army, who were apparently seeking to capture a store of weapons and food maintained where the monument now stands.

These included the appeal of Jews in Jamaica for a reduction in taxation ( 1736 ), the internecine quarrel among Jews in Barbados ( 1753 ), and the aiding of seven-year-old Moses de Paz, who escaped from Gibraltar in 1777 to avoid a forced conversion to Christianity.

In 1777, just after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, the following Jews agreed to accept the colonial paper money sanctioned by the king in lieu of gold and silver: Solomon Aaron, Joseph Solomon Kohn, Solomon Marache, Moses Mordecai, Barnard Soliman, and David Franks.

When he was introduced in " School Hard " ( season 2 ), Giles read that he was " barely two hundred ," implying that he was either born or sired in 1777 or slightly earlier.

His most famous play The School for Scandal ( Drury Lane, 8 May 1777 ) is considered one of the greatest comedies of manners in English.

* The School for Scandal ( first acted 8 May 1777 )

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 was educated at Westminster School ; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 2 July 1774 ; was elected fellow of All Souls College in 1777 ; and graduated B. C. L.

In 1776 he was elected to the post of head master of Colchester Royal Grammar School, and moved his family to the town during the spring of 1777.

He was the son of William Richard Hamilton ( 1777 – 1859 ), and was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Göttingen.

The Comte de Saint-Germain reorganised it in 1777 under the name of the École des Cadets-gentilshommes ( School of Young Gentlemen ), which accepted the young Napoleon Bonaparte in 1784.

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.

Thomas Day ( 1777 – 1855 ) graduated from Yale College in 1797 ; studied law at Litchfield Law School ; and, from September 1798 to September 1799, was a tutor in Williams College.

The film's title is a reference to Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1777 comic play, The School for Scandal.

Born in London on 29 November 1777, he was educated at the Mercers ' School, and at Merchant Taylors ' School, where his brother, the Rev.

Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

Congress began to move for ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1777:

In " Mémoire sur la combustion en général " (" On Combustion in General ," 1777 ) and " Considérations générales sur la nature des acides " (" General Considerations on the Nature of Acids ," 1778 ), he demonstrated that the " air " responsible for combustion was also the source of acidity.

There he remained while Vermont declared independence, and John Burgoyne's campaign for the Hudson River met a stumbling block near Bennington in August 1777.

On May 5, 1777, General George Washington asked Boudinot to be appointed as commissary general for prisoners.

There she remained for eighteen years, being the first to play more than thirty important characters, notably Lady Teazle ( 1777 ).

By summer 1777, however, Washington had rebuilt his strength and his confidence ; he stopped using raids and went for large-scale confrontations, as at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Yorktown.

The state constitution has provided since 1777 for the election of a lieutenant governor, who also acts as president of the state senate, to the same term ( keeping the same term lengths as the governor throughout all the constitutional revisions ).

The method is based on the individual work of Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 1777 – 1855 ) and Adrien-Marie Legendre ( 1752 – 1833 ) combined with modern algorithms for multiplication and square roots.

13: 6 Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin ( 1777 )

* 1777 – Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.

Although artists of that time typically traveled to Paris for further study, he chose to travel to Rome, where he stayed during the years 1772 – 1777.

* 1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: during the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.

He had a startling fondness for scatological humor, which is preserved in his surviving letters, notably those written to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart around 1777 – 1778, but also in his correspondence with his sister and parents.

* June 3 – Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777 – 1822, United Mexican States 1824 – 1846, until the California Republic.

The establishment of an autonomous Captaincy General in Caracas in 1777 and the preservation of the older Audiencia of Quito, nominally subject to the Viceroy but for most purposes independent, was a response to the necessities of effectively governing the peripheral regions.

Although Vermont initially supported the American Revolutionary War and sent troops to fight John Burgoyne's British invasion from Quebec in battles at Hubbardton and Bennington in 1777, Vermont eventually adopted a more neutral stance and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies.

Subsequent missions to Bhutan were made by the British in 1776, 1777, and 1783, and commerce was opened between British India and Bhutan and, for a short time, Tibet.

In the midst of preparations for sending help to France, and in the atmosphere of the first wave of libelles, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph came to call on his sister and brother-in-law on 18 April 1777, the subsequent six-week visit in Versailles a part of the attempt to figure out why their marriage had not been consummated.

However, it is agreed amongst most modern historians that Louis had no surgery – for instance, as late as 1777, the Prussian envoy, Baron Goltz, reported that the King of France had definitely declined the operation.

The pass however was not more than a trackway for mule trains and carts until a carriage road was laid out in 1777 at the behest of Empress Maria Theresa.

While Lee had been held prisoner by the British General Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe in March, 1777, Lee drafted a plan for British military operations against the Americans.