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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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10 Jan 1780 General Charles Lee was dismissed from the army after failing to overturn a court martial and resorting to attacking Washington’s character publicly. He retires to his estate and plays no further role in the war.

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9 Jan 1776 After a long delay, Continental Congress promotes Col Benedict Arnold to brigadier general. The delay in promotion would be one of many grievances he held against the American government.

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8 Jan 1776 Charlestown, MA Maj Thomas Knowlton’s raid disrupts Gen John Burgoyne’s play The Blockade of Boston. Thinking it's part of the show & a satire of the rebels, the audience laughs as Knowlton’s men take several prisoners & burn several buildings.

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6 Jan 1776 Boston MA Gen sir Henry Clinton sails from Boston to rendezvous off the Cape Fear River with a flotilla under Commodore Peter Parker & Gen Charles Cornwallis. The combined fleets/forces would join Loyalists in the Carolinas.

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Wassail!
Special Yankee Doodle Spies redux: Twelfth Night
https://t.co/xs12Ep0f4z

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5 Jan 1776 Portsmouth NH New Hampshire delegates vote to become the first independent state & replace the colonial charter with a new state constitution with a president and bicameral legislature.

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4 Jan 1781 Camp on Pacolet Creek, SC Brig Gen Morgan, commanding the “Flying Army,” wrote Gen Nathanael Greene on the state of his campsite, local militia, the poor state of supplies & reconnaissance efforts & the overall poor military situation.

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Yankee Doodle Spies: The "Little Gibraltar" https://t.co/3DrNfBIOnu

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4 Jan 1781 Princeton NJ Gen Marquis de Lafayette, Gen Arthur St Clair, and Col John Laurens try to parley with Penn. Line mutineers but fail to get them to disarm.

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Yankee Doodle Spies: Loyal to a Fault? https://t.co/n3oJMyGeVq

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