The nation’s 250th Anniversary is approaching. The National Association of Scholars is commemorating the events leading up to the Second Continental Congress officially adopting the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
“Surrender, in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!” That was Ethan Allen gently explaining to the skeleton British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga that their time had come. The capture of the fort on May 10, 1775, by what amounted to a guerrilla American force was not a battle for the ages. […]
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