When reenacting or acting as a historical interpreter, its good to have a few historical dates and stories to share. This series will publish a few. July 3, 1778 Massacre at Wyoming On July 1st, John Butler’s force of about 1,000 regular British troops, Loyalist irregulars, and Indians, marched into the Wyoming Valley and seized …
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Target Practice?
When you visit Copp’s Hill Burial Ground in Boston, you will see gravestones with pockmarks from musket balls, made when Redcoats used the graveyard as a target range. Yes, soldiers didn’t just point their muskets, they took aim and most of the King’s soldiers were surprisingly accurate shots given the limitations of smoothbore muskets. Pockmarks …
Upcoming Event:
July 4th: 1:00 pm Fort MifflinA Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence On July 8th in the Courtyard of the Pennsylvania State House (aka Independence Hall) Coronel John Nixon read allowed the newly published Declaration of Independence to an assembled unit of the Philadelphia Associators which was the city’s main militia unit. Following this …
Are you serious enough about the Revolution to commit HIGH TREASON?
July 4th: 1:00 pm Fort MifflinA Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence On Sunday, July 4th at 1:00pm, I plan to read aloud the Declaration of Independence with special emphasis on the abuses and usurpations imposed on the American Colonies by George III and Parliament. Following this reading, in remembrance of Col. Nixon’s reading …
Continue reading “Are you serious enough about the Revolution to commit HIGH TREASON?”
Are you serious enough about the Revolution to commit HIGH TREASON?
July 4th: 1:00 pm Fort MifflinA Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence On Sunday, July 4th at 1:00pm, I plan to read aloud the Declaration of Independence with special emphasis on the abuses and usurpations imposed on the American Colonies by George III and Parliament. Following this reading, in remembrance of Col. Nixon’s reading …
Continue reading “Are you serious enough about the Revolution to commit HIGH TREASON?”
Upcoming Event:
July 4th: 1:00 pm Fort MifflinA Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence On July 8th in the Courtyard of the Pennsylvania State House (aka Independence Hall) Coronel John Nixon read allowed the newly published Declaration of Independence to an assembled unit of the Philadelphia Associators which was the city’s main militia unit. Following this …
Historical Tidbits
When reenacting or acting as a historical interpreter, its good to have a few historical dates and stories to share. This series will publish a few. July 2, 1776 – “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. —I am apt to believe that it will …
Historical Tidbits
When reenacting or acting as a historical interpreter, its good to have a few historical dates and stories to share. This series will publish a few. July 2, 1776 Congress votes for INDEPENDENCE The Second Continental Congress, assembled in Philadelphia, formally adopts Richard Henry Lee’s resolution for independence from Great Britain. The resolution had originally …
Upcoming Event
July 4, 2021 — 5:00 pm – 8:00 pmJEFFERSONIAN PICNIC: Was the Continental Congress amiss in offering the Olive Branch Petition? We live in a new era of political apologists. Politicians are eager to express their loyalty to party and causes and sometimes this loyalty defies reason or even their own best interests but this …
REPOSTED from Carpenters’ Hall
Join us for interactive fun! Join us for July Family Fun Days at Carpenters’ Hall These events are free and ongoing throughout the day The Colonial Surveyor July 10 outside the Hall from 10 am – 4 pm The first surveyors in America arrived with the Jamestown Company in 1621. Given …
Michael Carver -- Historical Interpreter/Reenactor 