Showing posts with label Battle of Bunker Hill. Show all posts
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Friday, June 3, 2022

This Month in the American Revolution

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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