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The Paper Money Riot, or Exeter Rebellion, was an armed uprising in Exeter, New Hampshire, on September 20, 1786. Following the American Revolution, the nation, states, and many individuals were deeply in debt. The lack of specie and paper currency in circulation made the payment of debts difficult for poor farmers.
1644 August 31: Cornish Royalist victory at the Second Battle of Lostwithiel. 1645 Cornish Royalist leader Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet makes Launceston his base and he stations Cornish troops along the River Tamar and issues them with instructions to keep "all foreign troops out of Cornwall". Grenville tries to use "Cornish particularist ...
William of Malmesbury, writing around 1120, says that in about 927, King Æthelstan of England expelled the Cornish from Exeter and fixed Cornwall's eastern boundary at the River Tamar. T. M. Charles-Edwards dismisses William's account as an "improbable story" on the ground that Cornwall was by then firmly under English control. [35]
Exeter (de facto 1774–1776) Common languages: English (sole language of government) Abenaki Various other indigenous languages: Government: Land grant colony (1629-1641) Self-governing colony (1679-1686) (1689-1776) President
1922 map of New Hampshire published in the bulletin of the Brown Company in Berlin. Between 1884 and 1903, New Hampshire attracted many immigrants. French Canadian migration to the state was significant, and at the turn of the century, French Canadians represented 16 percent of the state's population, and one-fourth the population of Manchester ...
925 the Cornish were evicted from Exeter by King Athelstan of England who subdues Cornwall and defines the border of Cornwall with England at the River Tamar. 937 The Battle of Brunanburh AKA "the Great War" reputedly the bloodiest battle ever fought on British soil and where 5 kings died according to the Anglo-Saxon chroncles.
Exeter is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. Its population was 16,049 at the 2020 census, [2] up from 14,306 at the 2010 census. Exeter was the county seat until 1997, when county offices were moved to neighboring Brentwood.
927: Athelstan evicted the Cornish from Exeter and refortified the city. [24] 934: Æthelstan's invasion of Scotland; 936: King Athelstan set the boundary between England and Cornwall at the River Tamar. [24] [25] 937: Æthelstan's victory at the Battle of Brunanburh; 946: ... And Strathclyde was laid waste by the Saxons. [26] AC