The first Rockingham ministry was a British ministry headed by the Marquess of Rockingham from 1765 to 1766 during the reign of King George III. The government...

Rockingham ministry may refer to: First Rockingham ministry, the British government led by Lord Rockingham from 1765 to 1766 Second Rockingham ministry...

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham KG PC FRS (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782; styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1739, Viscount...

during the second premiership of the Marquess of Rockingham for four months in 1782. The North ministry resigned on 22 March 1782 after losing the confidence...

This article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing...

Father of the United States, military officer, and farmer who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second...

United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. It was debated by the Second Continental Congress at...

of good manners or those of a gentleman". The captain was wounded in the first exchange of gunfire, and he apologized when Arnold threatened to aim to...

groups in New York and Connecticut, and the name of Sons of Liberty was first used in Boston. January bore witness to a correspondence link between Boston...

commissioned on 28 November 1775; and the first Marine barracks were located in Philadelphia. Though legend places its first recruiting post at Tun Tavern, historian...

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Company in an effort to undercut the competition, and Prime Minister North's ministry hoped that this would establish a precedent of colonists accepting British...

120,000 copies were sold in the first three months. One biographer estimates that 500,000 copies were sold in the first year (in both America and Europe...

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from the prior colonial rapid-response units. The minutemen were among the first to fight in the American Revolution. Their teams constituted about a quarter...

George Grenville (1763–1765) First Rockingham ministry, the government under Lord Rockingham (1765–1766) Chatham ministry, the government under Lord Chatham...

fathering eight children. Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, the first child of Joseph and Mary Baker Allen, both descended from English Puritans...

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and adjutant general of the Continental Army. He is considered to be the first Adjutant General of the United States Army. Gates's previous wartime service...

Chesapeake Bay, where Cornwallis had taken command of the army. Cornwallis, at first given confusing orders by his superior officer, Henry Clinton, was eventually...

American Revolution, 1763–1776 (1968) pp 602–704. Marsh, Esbon R. "The First Session of the Second Continental Congress." The Historian 3#2 (1941): 181–194...

American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's...

of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a complex and surprise military maneuver organized by George Washington...

sent back to Europe for ratification by the other parties involved, the first reaching France in March 1784. British ratification occurred on April 9...

separated, not wanting a night battle.: 161–162  Gates formed up before first light. On his right flank he placed Mordecai Gist's 2nd Maryland Brigade...

although he never got to serve in this capacity. He was appointed as the first commander of the Southern Department. He served in this post for six months...

from the British Empire. The Congress constituted a new federation that it first named the United Colonies of North America, and in 1776, renamed the United...

including the King George in 1764 (age 17) as third mate and Two Friends as first mate in 1766 (age 19). Once John Paul matured, he grew dissatisfied in slavery...

generally unreliable in a pitched battle. In the past, they had routed at the first hint of defeat and abandoned the regulars. For instance, the Battle of Camden...

government. Following his return from Saratoga he began to associate with the Rockingham Whigs. In 1782 when his political friends came into office, Burgoyne was...