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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 14 August

[private |FP-Monthly|FP-Yearly|FP-Yearly-WLK|FP-Yearly-So76|FP-Founding Brother|FP-Founding Father|FP-Lifetime] If you're having problems playing the video, please download it, there may be an incompatibility with your browser. [/private] This Day In Founders History – 14 August In 1776 on this day, the Continental Congress resolved to offer all deserters of the British army refuge, stating, “Resolved, Therefore, that these states will receive all such foreigners who shall leave the armies of his Britannic majesty […]

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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 31 July

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 31 July On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress issued “Resolutions of Congress on Lord North’s Conciliatory Proposal.” The proposal had been an attempt to divide the colonies by urging one or more colonies to abandon the others. British Parliament offered colonies to the chance to contribute to parliament’s “common defense” in order to be exempted from certain taxes. Virginia was first […]

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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 26 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1727, that of Horatio Gates. Gates was born in England and moved to America at 22, fought during the French and Indian War, and then returned to England. He didn’t return to the U.S. until 1772, at which point he purchased […]

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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 25 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress sent an “Address to the Assembly of Jamaica.” The address explains the congress’s decision to include Jamaica in the embargo of British goods, as Jamaica was a British colony at the time

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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 23 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1850, Nathan K. Hall took office as the 17th Postmaster General, under President Millard Fillmore.

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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 17 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. Another birthday on this day in 1744, that of Elbridge Gerry. Gerry assumed the office of vice president under President Madison after George Clinton died in office, and Gerry too died in office less than two years later.

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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 12 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress heard the draft of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, read by the committee who prepared it.

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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 9 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1795, James Swan paid off the national debt of the United States, totaling $2,024,899.93.

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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 20 June

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1863, West Virginia joined the Union as the 35th state.

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