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MY INTERESTS: Revolutionary War, Civil War, Gilded Age, WW1, Afro-Amr history, Early RepublicJoined June 2025
19 Jul 1779, Massachusetts launched a naval expedition under Cmdr Dudley Saltonstall with 19 warships, 24 transport ships, plus militia. Objective: capture a 750-man British garrison at Castine on the Penobscot Peninsula, in what would later become Maine. #RevWar#History#AmRev
Every civilization eventually dies — it’s inevitable.
But what can be done about it? What will you do when civilization crumbles around you?
According to historian Arnold Toynbee, there are precisely 3 options — and only one leads to survival…🧵
1780 in America
Revolutionary war badass Francis Marion, AKA the Swamp Fox. 🫡
The American army retreated and was almost nonexistent in South Carolina after the fall of Charleston.
Partisan and militia groups shouldered the responsibility of carrying on the fight against the…
#DidYouKnow Carl Schurz served one year as Minister to Spain before returning to the US? Schurz was appointed in 1861 but later persuaded Lincoln to let him return to the US and grant him a commission as a Brigadier General. During the Second Battle of Manassas, Schurz mounted…
Here we see an original draft of the Declaration of Independence
The document was worked on by a few folks, notably Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇸, John Adams 🇺🇸, and Benjamin Franklin
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4 July 1946: Less than a year after World War II ends, the #Kielce pogrom in #Poland occurs after a rumor, provoked by the #communist militia and the Soviet-controlled Polish Army, that a Polish boy was kidnapped by Jews. 42 Jews were killed and 50 injured. #WWII#history#ad…
1776 in America.
Trumbull's 'Declaration of Independence'
The painting shows 42 of the 56 signers of the Declaration; Trumbull originally intended to include all 56 signers but was unable to obtain likenesses for all of them.
The painting shows the five-man drafting…
28 Jun 1778, Mary Ludwig Hayes, known as "Molly Pitcher," aided American patriots. Molly Pitcher is a nickname given to a woman who is said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth and is generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley. #RevWar#History#AmRev
Photographed in the early 20th century near the Valley of the Kings, this image captures the moment an elaborately decorated Egyptian sarcophagus was unearthed from the sands of the Theban necropolis. The coffin, likely dating to the Third Intermediate Period (1070–664 BC), is…
Imagine for a moment you were born in the year 1900. At age 14, World War I breaks out, ending at age 18, leaving 22 million dead.
Shortly after, a global pandemic appears, the Spanish flu, which kills 50 million people. And you survive, at 20 years.
At 29, you survive the…
The June 2025 Yankee Doodle Spies Blog post introduces the Connecticut Yankee who established the secret supply chain that kept the American Revolution alive...
yankeedoodlespies.blogspot.com/2025/06/deane-…
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