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Seymour's Regiment of Light Dragoons. 1st Battalion State Regiment, 1776–77. 1st Regiment of Militia, 1778–79. 2nd Regiment of Militia, 1776. 3rd Regiment of Foot, 1775. 3rd Regiment of Militia, 1776. 4th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76. 5th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76. 7th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76.
Colonial American military history. Colonial American military history is the military record of the Thirteen Colonies from their founding to the American Revolution in 1775. George Washington in 1772 as colonel of the Virginia Regiment; painting by Charles Willson Peale. Beginning when on August 29, 1643, the Plymouth Colony Court allowed ...
History of California. Human history in California began when indigenous Americans first arrived some 13,000 years ago. Coastal exploration by the Spanish began in the 16th century, with further European settlement along the coast and in the inland valleys following in the 18th century.
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
July–September. July 3: Wyoming Massacre. July 3 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Wyoming, also known as the Wyoming Massacre, takes place near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, ending in a terrible defeat of the local colonists. July 4 – American Revolutionary War: George Rogers Clark takes Kaskaskia. July 27 – American Revolution ...
California's Lone Star coup and declaration of independence, 1836. Las Californias Department established by Las Siete Leyes (The Seven Laws), 1836–1846. Second Federal Republic of Mexico, 1846–1848. Alta California Territory reestablished when 1824 Constitution of Mexico was restored, 1846–1848. Mexican–American War, 1846–1848.
The Eastern Department was formally established on April 4, 1776 [6] when the Main Army under Washington moved from Boston to New York City. Important operations in this department included the Siege of Boston in 1775–1776 and the Battle of Rhode Island in 1779. The department was discontinued in November 1779.
t. e. The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution, the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America, between 1776 and 1789.