At our Christmas Luncheon Dec 2024 our fact for 250 years ago Dec 1774 started with a review of what we had talked about at each meeting since Dec 2023 when I started this blog with the Boston Tea Party.
By December of 1774 the Bostonians were struggling with their harbour closed to trade. And their plight was being talked about in every colony. And smaller versions of the tea party were enacted in various sites: Philladelphia turned away a ship by threatening to tar and feather the captain….
But there was also a first skirmish:
In New Hampshire, Dec 1774, John Sullivan and a group of patriots raided Fort William and Mary (a British fort) twice. The first event they captured gun powder and distributed it among the colonies and in the second they captured cannons that were later used in the battle of bunker hill.
The battle of Fort William and Mary is known in New Hampshire as "The Shot Not Heard Around the World."
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