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This Day In Founders History – 19 November

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in history in 1752, that of George Rogers Clark, “Conqueror of the Northwest.”

November 19, 2012 5

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This Day In Founders History – 16 November

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation.

November 16, 2012 13

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This Day In Founders History – 15 November

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1777, the Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union for ratification by each state.

November 15, 2012 1

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This Day In Founders History – 14 November

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation.

November 14, 2012 8

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This Day In Founders History – 13 November

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1775, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery captured Montreal.

November 13, 2012 6

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This Day In Founders History – 12 November

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1775 on this day, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, after King George refused the Americans’ Olive Branch Petition.

November 12, 2012 11

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This Day In Founders History – 9 November

On this day in 1775, Americans successfully drove off British soldiers trying to steel livestock at Lechmere Point, in present-day Cambridge, Massachusetts.

November 9, 2012 6

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This Day In Founders History – 8 November

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1889 on this day, Montana became the 41st state to be admitted into the Union by presidential proclamation of President Benjamin Harrison.

November 8, 2012 6

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This Day In Founders History – 6 November

In 1777 on this day, Continental Congress in session, “Resolved, That Colonel James Wilkinson, adjutant general in the northern army, in consideration of his services in that department, and being strongly recommended by General Gates as a gallant officer, and a promising military genius, and having bought the despatches to Congress, giving an account of the surrender of Lieutenant General Burgoyne and his army, on the 17 day of October […]

November 6, 2012 5