On July 12, 1774, citizens of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, passed the Carlisle Resolves. Gathered at the First Presbyterian Church, locals declared independence from British tyranny. They condemned the closing of the Boston port and asserted that taxation without representation was illegal. Future Supreme Court Justice James Wilson led the meeting.This bold act paved the way for the official United States Declaration of Independence two years later
On July 11, 1782, British Royal Governor Sir James Wright, along with several civil officials and military officers, flee the city of Savannah, Georgia, and head to Charleston, South Carolina. As part of the British evacuation, a group consisting of British regulars led by General Alured Clarke traveled to New York, while Colonel Thomas Brown led a mixed group of rangers and Indians to St. Augustine, Florida. The remaining British soldiers were transported to the West Indies aboard the frigate HMS Zebra and the sloop of war HMS Vulture. Sir James Wright Pictured, Artist attributed to Andrea Soldi (Italian, 1703 - 1771)
On the night of July 10, 1777, Rhode Island militia Lieutenant Colonel William Barton led one of the most daring and successful special operations of the American Revolutionary War: a stealthy whaleboat raid that captured British Major General Richard Prescott from his bed. The primary objective of the mission was to secure a high-ranking British officer to exchange for Major General Charles Lee, the second-in-command of the Continental Army, who had been captured by the British in December 1776. General George Washington highly praised the raid, calling it "among the finest partisan exploits that has taken place in the course of the war.
Those look far more like French revolution troops than AWI troops.
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Colonel John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776. He read the document to a gathered crowd at noon in the State House Yard in Philadelphia, now known as Independence Square. The reading occurred just four days after the Continental Congress officially adopted the document. To summon the citizens, the city's bells were rung—including the famous Liberty Bell. The text announced to a mixed crowd of patriots and loyalists that the thirteen colonies were now independent states
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