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Something beautiful to focus on today. The painting of Countess Mary Howe, Admiral Lord Richard Howe's gorgeous wife.
Military leader of the Revolutionary War, William Douglas
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#OTD. The Dartmouth, with her cargo of 114 chests of British East India Company tea, was the first of the Tea Party ships to arrive at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston. She arrived in Boston on Sunday, November 28, 1773 – eighteen days prior to the December 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party.
Mary, Countess Howe modeling the height of fashion in the mid-1700s
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July 29, 1777, the Howes’ voyage to the Chesapeake continues. The fleet is spotted off Cape May but their destination is still unknown. John Adams writes: They might as well imagine them gone round Cape Horn into the South Seas to land in California & march across the Continent..
Mary, Countess Howe modeling the height of fashion in the mid-1700s
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June 12, 1775, Gen Thomas Gage declares martial law in MA in a proclamation written by Gen John Burgoyne. It begins: “WHEREAS the infatuated multitudes, who have long suffered themselves to be conducted by certain well known Incendiaries and Traitors…” https://t.co/h4xaCf8z4q
Mary, Countess Howe modeling the height of fashion in the mid-1700s
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