The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-04

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July 4-Declaration of Independence signed
and promulgated in Philadelphia.
Aug. 27-Battle of Long Island.
Sept. 15-Gen. Washington evacuated New
York.
Oct 2s-Battle of White Plains, n. Y.
Dec. 8-Washington crossed the Delaware
River.
Dec. Washington recrossed the Della
Dec. 26-Gen. Washington surprised the
British army at Trenton, n. j.
17T7.
Jan. 2-Battle of Princeton, n. j.
June 14-Adoption Of the American flag by
Congress.
July 5-The British Gen. Burgoyne invested
Ticonderoga.
Aug. 16-Battle of Bennington.
Sept. 11-Batte of Saltwater, n. Y.
Sept. 11-Battle of Brandywine.
Oct. 4-Battle of Germantown, Pa.
Oct. battle of Saratoga, n. Y.
Oct. 17-Gen. Burgoyne surrendered at Sara
toga.
Dec 15-The American army retired into
winter quarters at Valley Forge Pa.
I11S.
During this year the American army encoun-
tered great distress, owing to the absence OF all
the necessaries that contribute to comfort.
Feb. 6-France acknowledged American in
dependence, and a treaty was ratified.
June 18-British army evacuated Phila-
delphia.
June 2S-Battle Of Monmouth, n. j.
July 3-Wyomng massacre.
July Articles of confederation adopted
unanimously
Sept. 14-Benjamin Franklin appointed first
Minister to France.
May-The British burned Norfolk, Ports
mouth, Suffolk, and Gosport, in Virginia.
July 15-Gen. Wayne captured Stony Point.
Oct. 11-Joseph Pulaski died. having been
wounded in the attack on Savannah.
1880.
May 11-Charleston, S. c., surrendered to
the British.
June 23-Battle of Springfield, n. J.
Aug. 16-Battle of Camden.
Aug. 19-Baron De Kalb died of wounds re-
ceived at the battle of Camden, aged 4S.
Sept. 4-Benedict Arnold's treason discov-
cred.
Sep 2S-Maj. Andre as captured by three
miitiamen named John Pauldlng, David Will
Jams, and Isaac Van Wart.
Oct. 2-NTaj. John Andre hanged as spy at,
Tappan, OH the Hudson River, n. Y.
Oct. battle of Kings Mountain, South
Carolina.
Jan. 17-Battle of Cowpens, South Caro-
lima.
Oct. 19-Surrender of Lord CORVALLIS, with
his whole army, at Yorktown.
1882.
Feb. 5-American independence acknowl-
edged by Sweden.
Feb. 25-American independence acknowl-
edged by Denmark.
March 24-American independence acknowl-
edged by Spain.
April 19-American independence acknovl-
edged by Holland
May 3-George Washington Indignantly re-
fused to be made King.
July 15-American independence acknowl-
edged by Russia.
Oct S-1reaty formed with Holland.
1888.
Jan. 20-Preliminary articles of peace signed
by British and American Commissioners, at
Versailles, France.
March 15-The American army disbanded at
Newburg, n. Y.
Sept. 3-John JAY John Adams, and Benja-
min Franklin negotiated final treaty of peace
with England, at Paris.
Nov. 25-New York city evacuated by the
British
Dec. 4-Gen. Washington separated from the
army.
Dec. 23-George Washington resigned his
commission as Major-General of the United
States into the hands OF Congress- at Annapo
lis, Md.
During the war the English employed to aid
them in the subjection of the.country over IL 900
Indians. whose mode of warfare was to take
scalps, not prisoners, and to massacre women
and children. AS all evidence of this fact
Capt. Gerrish, OF the New England militia, cap
tured on the frontier OF Canada eight packages
Of scalps. properly cured and dried, which were
to be sent to England as present from the
Seneca Indians to George III. The packages
contained 43 scalps OF soldiers 297 of farmers
80 Of women. 100 OF boys, 211 of girls % Of
infants, and 122 assorted, making a total Of 979
scalps.
June 2-John Adams, the first Ambassador
from the United States to the Court Of st.
James, had an audience with the King of Great
Britain.
1886.
June 10-Nathaniel Greene, a Major General
i'm the army of the Revolution, died, aged A.
1887.
The first cotton mill IN the United States was
built at Beverly, Mass.
Nav 25-The convention TO form the Con-
sttution Of the United States met at Phila-
dclphia.
Sept 1.-THE Constitution OF the United
States was adopted unanimously, and present
cd to the States for ratification.
Dec. 7-Delaware was the first State that ac-
cepted the Constitution.
Dec. 12- Pennsylvania accepted the Const.
tuition.