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Nice on creating a Continental Army, with mention of Washington & others...
Nice on creating a Continental Army, with mention of Washington & others...
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October 28, 1775
THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST, Philadelphia, Oct. 28, 1775 Most of page 2 is taken up with a report to the Earl of Dunmore from the Virginia Gazette containing some vitriolic comments.
Page 3 has a great item concerning the creation of a Continental army, reading in part: "...the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Lynch & Benjamin Harrison, from Phila., a Committee from the Continental Congress...as the time for which the present army is raised will expire in 2 or 3 months, these gentlemen, with the members of the Hon. Council of this colony, are appointed to meet & confer with his Excellency General Washington on the subject of forming & establishing another Continental army for the defence of the invaded rights of the United Colonies." Also noted is: "The enemy in Boston have been remarkably still for near a fortnight past, having scarcely fired a gun."
Page 3 also has some nice war-related reports from New York, Philadelphia, and Cambridge with talk of General Gage, comments on events near Boston, and a report of events in the Lake George vicinity.
Four pages, 8 by 10 inches, and a very small hole on the back leaf affects just 2 words but no loss of readability. Some fine content on the Revolutionary War.
Category: Revolutionary War
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