The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-10
CENTENNIAL.
Notable Incidents i'm the War Of TndePen-
dRnce.
During this centennial year the follow
ing chronological table will be found of
interest and should be preserved:

| DuTlDg JnlS centennial year the iOllOW-
ing chronological table will be found OF
interest and should be preserved:
1776.
July 4.-Declaration of independence sign.
| ed and promulgated in Philadelphia by the
| representatives of thirteen states, viz: Mas
| sachusetts, having Eve; Connecticut, four
New Hampshire, three Rhode Island, two
New York, four New Jersey, five Pennsyl-
vania, nine; Delaware, three Maryland,
| four; Virginia, seven North Carolina, three
South Carolina, four; and Georgia, three
representatives. Total number of sgners,
fifty six. The country contained 815,615
square miles.
August 27.-Battle of Long Island.
August 2S.-WashingtOn, with his army,
retreated from Long Island.
September Washington took posses.
sion of New York city.
November 16.-Fort Washington, on Man.
haitian island, surrendered to the British.
November 1S.-Fort Lee, on the Hudson
riveg, evacuated by the Americans.
December Washington crossed the
Delaware river.
December 25-Washington recrossed the
Delaware.
December 26.-Gen. Washington surprised
the British army at Trenton, N
January 2.-Battle of Princeton, n. j.
April 25.-Marquis Gilbert Mottier Lafay-
ette arrived at Charleston, s. C., from France.
June 14.-AdOption of the American flag
by congress.
August 16.-Battle of Bennington, Vt.
September l1.-Battle of Brandywine.
September 27.-Philadelphia occupied by
the British.
October 4.-Battle of Germantown, Pa.
October battle of Saratoga, n. Y.
October 15.-Kingston, N. Y, burned by
the British.
October 17.-General Burgoyne surren-
dered at Saratoga.
December 15.-The American army retired
into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pa.
177S.
During this year the American army en-
cOuntered great distress, owing to the ab-
sence of all the necessaries that contribute to
comfort.
January 9.-Battle of Sunbury. Ga.
February 6-France acknowledged Amer
lean independence and a treaty was ratified.
June 1S.-British army evacuated Phila-
delphia,
June 27-Battle of Monmouth, N. Y.
June S.-Wyoming massacre.
July S.-Articles of confederation adopted
unanimously
June 1l.-The French Admiral d'Estaing
arrived at Newport, Va.
September 14.-Benj njamin Franklin ap-
pointed first minister to France.
November 12.-Massacre at Cherry Valley,
NY.
December 29.-savannah, Ca, captured by
the British.
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May.-The British burned Norfolk, Ports
mouth, Suffolk and Gosport in Virginia.
Juy.-The British destroyed New Haven,
Fairfield, Nor%alk and Greenwich, in Con-
necticut.
July 15.-Gen. Wayne captured Stony
Point.
August 13.-Battle of Penobscot, Me.
October 3.-The Americans attempted to
retake Savannah, but were unsuccessful
October 11.-Joseph Pulaski died, having
been wounded in the attack on Savannah.
October 26.-British withdrew from Rhode
Island.
November 1O,--Joseph Hewes, of North
Carolina, one of the sfgners of the declara-
ton of independence, died, aged fifty.
1850.
May 1l.-Charleston, S. c., surrendered to
the British.
June 28.-Battle Of Springfield, N. j.
August tB.-Battle of Camden.
August f9.-Baron De Kalb, an American
brgadier-general in the war of the revolu-
ton, died of wounds received at the battle of
Camden, aged fOrty-eight.
September benedict Arnold's treason
discovered.
September 28.-Major Andre was captured
by three militamen named John Paulding.
DAVID NllllaDlS ana isaac van Wart
October 2.-Major John Andre, an adju-
tant-general in the British army, was banged
as a spy at Tappan, on the Hudson river,
Ny.
October battle of Kings mountain,
S. c,
i7Si.
January THE militia of New Jersey and
Pennsylvania revolt.
January 17-Battle of COwpens, S. C.
February 2S.-Richard Stockton, one of
the signers of the declaration of independ-
ence, died, aged fifty-three.
February 22.-George Taylor, of Pennsyl-
vania one of the signers of the declaration
of independence, died, aged sixty-fve.
New London burned; Fort Griswold, on
the opposite side of Thames river, taken and
number of people massacred by British
soldiers, under the command of the traitor,
Benedict Arnold. New London was Arnold
native county.
Lyman Hall, of Georgia, one of the signers
of the declaration of independence, died,
aged sixty.
June 5.-Augusta, Ga, capitulated to the
Americans.
August 2S.-Gen. Corvallis, commander
of the British army, entered Yorktown, Va.
September S.-Battle of Eutaw Springs,
S. c.
! October 19.-Surrender of Lord CORVALLIS,
with his whole army, at Yorktown.
1872.
February 5.-American independence ac-
knowledged by Sweden.
! February 25.-American independence ac-
knowledged by Denmark.
| March 24.-American independence ac-
| knowledged by Spain.
April S-The United States vessel Hyder
| Ally, carrying sixteen guns, captured by the
British ship Gen. Monk, with twenty nine
guns.
April 19.-American independence ac-
! knOwledged by Holland.
! July.-American independence acknowl.
| edged by Russia.
October S.-Treaty formed with Holland
1888.
January 20.-Preliminary articles of peace
| signed by British and American commission.
| ers at Versailles, France
March 15.-The American army disbanded
at Newburgh, n. Y.
September 3.-John Jay, John Adams and
| Benjamin Franklin negotiated final treaty
of peace with England at Paris.
November 25.-New York city evacuated
by the British.
December 2S.-George Washington re.
the United States into the hands of congress
at Annapolis, Md.
During the war the English employed
to aid them in the subsection of the
country over $4,000 Indians, whose
mode of warfare was to take scalps, not
prisoners, and to massacre women and
children. As an evidence of this fact
Captain Gerrish, of the New England
militia, captured on the frontier of Can.
ada eight packages of scalps, properly
cured and dried, which were to be sent
to England as present from the Senecs
Indians to George III. The packages
contained 43 scalps of soldiers, 19S Of
farmers, SS of women, 100 of boys, 2I1
of girls, % of infants and 122 assorted
making a total of 973 scalps.