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1777
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by
Gorgonzola
Thu Oct 26 2000 at 1:18:16
Born in 1777:
German
mathematician
and
physicist
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gauss
.
Kentucky
statesman and
presidential candidate
Henry Clay
.
Scottish
poet
Thomas Campbell
.
American
horticultiralist
John Bartram
.
Bernadine Eugénie
Désirée Clary
. Engaged for a time to
Napoleon Bonaparte
, she eventually married his marshal
Bernadotte
.
Danish
physicist
Hans Christian Oersted
.
French
physician
Charles Cagniard de la Tour
.
French
chemist
Bernard Courtois
French chemist
Charles Desormes
.
German painter
Philip Otto Runge
.
Future
Russian
Tsar Alexander I
Died in 1777:
Alsatian
mathematician
Johann-Heinrich Lambert
.
English
playwright
Samuel Foote
.
Austrian composer
Georg Christoph Wagenseil
.
Dolly Pentreath
, the last person known to have been raised speaking
Cornish
and nothing else. She is often (incorrectly) called the last speaker of that language.
King
José
of
Portugal
.
Events of 1777:
War of American Independence:
Political activities
Prince Hall
and eight other freed blacks in
Boston
present a petition urging the end of
slavery
.
{thomas Jefferson] introduces a bill
State constitutions
Georgia
(February 5)
New York
, (April 20)
Vermont
(July 8). Vermont is technically an independent republic at this point.
(November 15) Congress adopts the
Articles of Confederation
(which do not become operative until 1781).
The victory at
Saratoga
convinces
France
to openly aid the
United States
.
Fighting
(January)
George Washington
captures
Princeton
,
New Jersey
, then settles down for the winter in
Morristown
.
(April-June) Lord
Cornwallis
tries to drive Washington out of New Jersey, but the Continental army and the New Jersey militia eventually force him to withdraw back to New York.
(May) Count
Casimir Pulaski
arrives in
Philadelphia
.
(June 27) The
Marquis de Lafayette
arrives in Philadelphia. Commissioned as a
Major General
by Congress, he meets Washington on August 1.
British troops, Canadian loyalists and
Seneca
Indians advance into New York from the west. they lay siege to
Fort Stanwix
General
Howe
leaves New York and sails around to the head of the
Chesapeake Bay
with the intention of capturing Philadelphia.
(August 6) The bloody
Battle of Oriskany
in western New York. A force of [German militia and
Oneida
Indians are mauled by the British, Canadians and Senecas, but the latter are forced to withdraw to
Canada
.
(September 3) General Howe forces Washing ton's army to retreat at the
Battle of Brandywine
.
Count Casimir Pulaski
is commissioned as a
brigadier general
in the Continental army, in charge of all American
cavalry
.
(September 20) General
Anthony Wayne
is suprised by the British at the Battle of
Paoli
near Philadelphia,
(October 3-4) Washington is badly defeated at
Germantown
,
Pennsylvania
.
(September-October) British general
Henry Clinton
drives General
Israel Putnam
and his distant cousin
George Clinton
, Governor of New York, out of the the
Highlands
on the west side of the Hudson. A British army advances up the
Hudson River
Valley.
(October 17) The Continental army under
Benedict Arnold
and
Horatio Gates
defeats the British army at the
Battle of Saratoga
, capturing General
Burgoyne
. This is one of the key victories of the war.
(October 18) The British army advancing up the Hudson arrives in
Albany
, where the news of Saratoga forces them to withdraw back to New York City.
(October 19) General Howe takes control of Philadelphia. Congress retreats to
York, PA
.
Washington's army retreats to
Valley Forge
for its terrible winter there.
A secret treaty between the Duke of
Bavaria
and the Austrian emperor cedes lower Bavaria to Austria. This leads to the
War of Bavarian Succession
between Austria and Prussia.
1776
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1778
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Cornish
Be the baddest bad girl you can be
Sir John Ross
Constitution Island
Sybil Ludington
"Mad" Anthony Wayne
Henry Clay
EDB
1888
Charles Pinckney
Rothschild
School for Scandal
Dolly Pentreath
American History
Karl Friedrich Gauss
Chesapeake Bay
2 Friends
1666
18th century
Captain Cook
1900
James Cook
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