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2 days ago · Black Patriots. On 5 March 1770, a mob of around 300 American Patriots accosted nine British soldiers on King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Outraged by the British occupation of their city, as well as the recent murder of an 11-year-old boy, the crowd was filled with Bostonians from all walks of life; among them was Crispus Attucks, a mixed-race sailor commonly thought to have been of ...
5 days ago · Despite his hostility toward the British government, in 1770 Adams agreed to defend the British soldiers who had fired on a Boston crowd in what became known as the Boston Massacre. His insistence on upholding the legal rights of the soldiers, who in fact had been provoked , made him temporarily unpopular but also marked him as one of the most ...
- What were John Adams’s accomplishments?John Adams was an advocate of American independence from Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachus...
- When did John Adams become president?Having finished second to George Washington in the first U.S. presidential election in 1789 and serving as Washington’s vice president (1789–97), A...
- What was John Adams’s family like?John Adams’s family could trace its lineage to the first generation of Puritan settlers in New England and made major contributions to U.S. politic...
- What was John Adams’s early life like?John Adams was born and raised in Braintree (now in Quincy), Massachusetts. The eldest of the three sons of farmer and shoemaker Deacon John Adams,...
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1 day ago · The Boston massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770 when a large gathering of unarmed colonists were fired upon by British soldiers. While only five demonstrators lost their lives ...
4 days ago · October 7, 1775. The Bombardment of Bristol was a British naval attack on the town of Bristol, Rhode Island. It was part of a series of raids carried out by Captain James Wallace in the waters off Rhode Island to seize provisions for British troops during the Siege of Boston. This 1765 illustration depicts a small ship anchored in the water ...
3 days ago · Mayflower Compact. IN THE NAME of GOD, Amen. We, whose Names are under-written, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Soveraign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defendor of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our K [i]ng and ...
2 days ago · The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory.
5 days ago · 25–28 June 1941. Szczuczyn. Polish nationalists. 300 Jews. Pogrom halted after intervention by German army in favor of the Jews. Additional 100 Jews killed in July by Poles. The Jews were subsequently murdered by the Germans. 1941 Białystok massacres. 27 June, 3–4 July, 12–13 July 1941.
