How St. Patrick’s Day fueled the American Revolution in Boston in 1776
You know about the leprechauns and the Irish and the pot of gold, but did you know that St. Patrick's Day has another ...
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THE US REVOLUTION REVISITED: Washington took fateful gamble atop Dorchester Heights in 1776
On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...
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Gottfried Treviranus (1776–1837)
GOTTFRIED REINHOLD TREVIRANUS, the eminent physiologist, the centenary of whose death occurred on February 16, was born at Bremen on February 4, 1776. He studied medicine at Gottingen, and while ...