From the American Battlefield Trust June 2022 calendar.
JUNE 2, 1774
** The Quartering Act is amended.
JUNE 9, 1772
** A British ship, the Gaspee, was patrolling against smugglers ran aground near Rhode Island and a local mob burns it. The mob is then accused of treason.
JUNE 14, 1777
** Flag Resolution. Congress declared "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field." (And the reason you should display the flag this date.)
JUNE 15, 1775
** George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
JUNE 17, 1775
** The Battle of Bunker Hill, Massachusetts.
JUNE 28, 1776
** The Battle of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina.
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