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Award-winning author of historical fiction with a dash of sci-fi. My blog, Yankee Doodle Spies, profiles the people, places & things of the Revolutionary War.
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5 Mar 1770 Boston Massacre explodes in a midnight confrontation when a mob storms a British guard post under Capt Thomas Preston. Guards fire on mob killing 5 colonials & wounding 8. Becomes a rallying point against “oppression” in pamphlets, posters, etc.

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4 Mar 1782 Lt Col William Hull leads a raid against Morrisania, NY, taking over 50 prisoners while incurring 25 casualties. The area today called the Bronx was often a no man’s land, as was lower Westchester, in the struggle between patriots &the Loyalists, British & Hessians.

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Yankee Doodle Spies: The Liberty Pole https://t.co/zYHmREIrWX

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Yankee Doodle Spies: A General Disaster https://t.co/d5niJbaDl5

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Yankee Doodle Spies: What Ho, Horatio https://t.co/GguY0G3X8u

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1 Mar 1776 Commodore Esek Hopkins’s squadron gathers off the island of Abaco in the Bahamas in preparation for an attack on New Providence on Nassau.

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28 Feb 1781 Fort Watson SC. Gen Thomas Sumter’s frontal assault repulsed with over 50 casualties. His 3rd defeat in a month weakens morale & increases desertion.

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20 Feb 1775 Concord MA 2nd Mass Provincial Congress reconvenes to improve colonial defenses: creating a military commissary, enlisting Stockbridge Indians, establishing military rules, & requests reinforcements from other colonies.

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19 Feb 1781 Gen Thomas Sumter’s attack against British Maj Andrew Maxwell’s garrison of 300 at Ft Granby on the Congaree R. in SC is repulsed. Sumter’s siege operations are curtailed when he learns of a relief force under Lt Col Francis Rawdon.

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