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Harvey Logan In 1753, Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal "on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity". In 1775, In a letter to General Philip Schuyler, Washington complains that, despite his best efforts, “No Troops were ever better provided or higher paid, yet their Backwardness to inlist for another Year is amazing: It grieves me to see so little of that patriotick Spirit, which I was taught to believe was Characteristick of this

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Harvey Logan In 1753, Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal "on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity". In 1775, In a letter to General Philip Schuyler, Washington complains that, despite his best efforts, “No Troops were ever better provided or higher paid, yet their Backwardness to inlist for another Year is amazing: It grieves me to see so little of that patriotick Spirit, which I was taught to believe was Characteristick of this

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"A successful faction may erect a tyranny on the ruins of order and law, while no succour could constitutionally be afforded by the union to the friends and supporters of the government." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 21

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US Navy and Army Game In 1760, Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers took possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain. French commandant Belotre surrendered Detroit. General James Amherst selected Rogers for the honor of receiving the surrender of the western French posts——Detroit, Michilimackinac, Ouiatenon, and others. In 1775, Captain John Manley of Marblehead, commanding the schooner Lee captured the British brigantine Nancy, about ten miles off Cape Ann. In 1775, Congress i

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"Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities." James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 20

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General Westmoreland In 1620, 41 male passengers on the Mayflower , prior to landing at Plymouth , Massachusetts, signed the Mayflower Compact , by which they agreed to abide by the laws of the new government they would establish. In 1654, Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia. In 1775, Two young soldiers have been found guilty of abandoning their posts while on duty—an offense that could have cost them their lives. A court-martial has sentenced them to

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"The history of Germany is a history of wars between the emperor and the princes and states; of wars among the princes and states themselves; of the licentiousness of the strong, and the oppression of the weak; of foreign intrusions, and foreign intrigues; of requisitions of men and money disregarded, or partially complied with; of attempts to enforce them, altogether abortive, or attended with slaughter and desolation, involving the innocent with the guilty; of general inbec

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