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Friday, September 30
On This Date In 1399 Henry Bolingbroke was proclaimed King Henry IV of England upon the abdication of King Richard II the day previous. On This Date In 1776 In a letter to his nephew, Lund Washington, plantation manager of Mount Vernon, General George Washington wrote of his displeasure with...
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Friday, September 23
On This Date In 1779 The Battle of Flamborough Head was a small naval battle that took place in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire between an American Continental Navy squadron led by John Paul Jones and the two British escort vessels protecting a large merchant convoy. In the engagement,...
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Friday, September 16
On This Date In 1620 The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists-half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs-had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy weather and n...
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Friday, September 09
On This Date In 1739 The Stono Rebellion, in the colony of South Carolina, was a slave rebellion begun on Sunday, September 9, 1739. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution. One of the earliest known organized rebellions in the present...
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Friday, September 02
On This Date In 31 B.C. At the Battle of Actium, off the western coast of Greece, Roman leader Octavian won a decisive victory against the forces of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Before their forces suffered final defeat, Antony and Cleopatra broke though the enemy lines and ...
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Friday, August 26
On This Date In 1071 The Battle of Manzikert was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq forces led by Alp Arslan near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Mu? Province, Turkey). It resulted in one of the most decisive defeats of the Byzantine Empire and the capture of the Byzantine Emperor Ro...