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.
7 January 1718 Salem Village (now Danvers), MA Israel Putnam, American general is born. He would become a French & Indian War hero and an early military leader in the #RevWar . Fiery and aggressive, he’d gain the nickname, “Old Put”. #History#AmRev
5 Jan 1776 Portsmouth NH New Hampshire delegates vote to become the first independent state & replace colonial charter with a new state constitution with a president and bicameral legislature. #RevWar#History#AmRev
4 Jan 1781 Princeton NJ Gen Marquis de Lafayette, Gen Arthur St Clair, and Col John Laurens try to parley with PA Line mutineers but fail to get them to disarm. #RevWar#History#AmRev
30 Dec 1776 Col Joseph Reed, leading a patrol of dragoons. skirmishes with a British patrol along the Delaware R. near Trenton, NJ & drives them off. #RevWar#History#AmRev
29 Dec 1769 Boston, MA The Committee of Boston Merchants send a letter to Benjamin Franklin, regarding the expiration of the non-importation agreement, and working to reimplement it among the colonies. #RevWar#History#AmRev