Others claimed he was their grandfather, or George Washington or some other Revolutionary War hero.
Exhibits in the Old Stone House describe its connection to baseball and the Revolutionary War.
In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
At the time of the revolutionary war around 40m buffalo roamed the North American continent.
In the 1780s, the Continental Congress financed the Revolutionary War with the printing press.
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This is hardly a new trick: after the revolutionary war, lotteries were used to pay for schools.
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The revolutionary war hero and outstanding silversmith made the Sons of Liberty silver bowl in the case.
Military commissions have a history in the United States dating back to George Washington and the Revolutionary War.
The game is about Assassins and Templars, each of whom fight for both sides of the Revolutionary War.
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Philadelphia's Lydia Darragh, America's first female undertaker, operated her business for almost a decade before the Revolutionary War began.
It was also Patriot's Day, commemorating the opening battle of the Revolutionary War.
In particular, I suggest a good French vintage to honor that nation for their support during the Revolutionary War.
America has not been in a justified defensive war since the Revolutionary War.
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Gouverneur Morris played a critical role in financing and supplying the Revolutionary War.
Since then, whenever the Treasury has had financial difficulties, it has printed money, just as it did during the Revolutionary War.
Chase did create a new federal bank regulatory system and printed federal money for the first time since the Revolutionary War.
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One was an Oct. 22, 1780 signed letter from George Washington to his headquarters as the Revolutionary War was finally winding down.
In 1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vermont.
"He knew all the names of the generals and battles, from the Revolutionary War and Bunker Hill, and all that, " Mr. Berling said.
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The first person to die in the Revolutionary War is buried not far from here, a black man from Barbados, named Crispus Attucks.
Afterward, a senior officer laid a wreath on a memorial to five pre-Revolutionary War royal governors who had been born in the historic city.
Marshall was one of George Washington's lieutenants in the Revolutionary War.
The Carolinas were invaded by the British in the Revolutionary war, and during one invasion the Brits stepped into a trap that the Americans set.
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The Fraunces Tavern survived the Revolutionary War, a devastating fire in 1835 that wiped out most of lower Manhattan and now the September 11 terrorist attack.
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The loaded artillery piece was one of two Revolutionary War-era cannons being stored at the park's Ramble shed, near the 79th Street transverse, according to the affiliate.
Long before Ebbets Field existed, beginning in 1883, Brooklyn's baseball team played in Washington Park, which is better known as a Revolutionary War site for the Battle of Brooklyn.
Dohrn, the woman who has called for a "revolutionary war" to destroy the US, felt that the Egyptian authorities' behavior was nothing but an unfortunate diversion from their mission.
Military Commissions remain an appropriate forum for detainee trials - This legal system has historically been used to try enemy combatants in wartime, dating back to the Revolutionary War.
Washington Irving's most famous literary creation (with apologies to Ichabod Crane, who might have benefited from today's ban on helmet-to-helmet hits) snoozed for 20 years, plum missing the Revolutionary War.
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