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    The Recruiting Act 1778 (18 Geo. 3. c. 53) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which created a bounty system for volunteers and instituted...
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    measures were judged to be insufficient. It served as a revision of the Recruiting Act 1778. It raised the bounty £3, 3s. After the expiration of their service...
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    increased from 48,000 to 110,000. Two acts were passed, the Recruiting Act 1778 and the Recruiting Act 1779, for the impression of individuals into the British...
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    Press Gangs was introduced. Two acts were passed, the Recruiting Act 1778 and the Recruiting Act 1779, for the impressment of individuals. For some men...
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  • Summer, there is a brief "Mutiny of MacRaes" at Edinburgh. 28 May – Recruiting Act 1778, applying only to London and Scotland, provides for 3-year service...
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    a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1778. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England...
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    Suspension Act 1776 (17 Geo. 3. c. 9) Recruiting Act 1778 (18 Geo. 3. c. 53) Middleton Railway Act 1757 (31 Geo. 2. c. 22) Criminal Law Act 1776 (16 Geo...
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    The Recruiting Act 1703 (2 & 3 Ann. c. 13) was an Act of the Parliament of England, after the start of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe, with...
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    Events from the year 1778 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton then Frederick Haldimand Governor of Nova Scotia:...
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    Massenhausen, Zwack immediately applied himself to recruiting more mature and important recruits. Most prized by Weishaupt was Hertel, a childhood friend...
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    American Revolutionary War (category Conflicts in 1778)
    consequently, British military planners relied on recruiting Loyalists, but had trouble recruiting sufficient numbers as the Patriots had widespread support...
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    of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act enacted one year earlier, as the Government of India Act had by then rendered it vestigial, powerless...
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  • Mutiny Acts (redirect from Mutiny Act 1778)
    7) The Mutiny Act 1763 (4 Geo. 3. c. 3) The Mutiny Act 1778 (18 Geo. 3. c. 4) The Mutiny Act 1786 (26 Geo. 3. c. 10) The Mutiny Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3...
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    New Deal (redirect from Lanham Act of 1940)
    EVENTS IN AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY, 1778-1968, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, p. 11 "Davis-Bacon Act Amendment (Public Act 403)". 1935. Archived from the original...
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  • the Napoleonic Wars. With the exception of the Papists Act 1778 and the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 (31 Geo. 3. c. 32), these bills were defeated. Then...
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    Monmouth Court House in modern-day Freehold Borough, New Jersey, on June 28, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded...
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    alliance in early 1778; France thus became the first foreign nation to officially recognize the Declaration of Independence. On February 6, 1778, the United...
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    against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Lord George...
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    the British evacuation of Philadelphia in June 1778, the Marine Barracks were reestablished and recruiting resumed. From then until the close of the war...
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    party of recruiting soldiers and some townsfolk advanced on the rioters, who retreated onto a moated island in the school grounds. The Riot Act was read...
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    barracks were located in Philadelphia. Though legend places its first recruiting post at Tun Tavern, historian Edwin Simmons surmises that it was more...
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    December 1777 – June 1778. Main Army at Middlebrook, New Jersey, December 1778 – June 1779. Main Army Artillery at Pluckemin, New Jersey, 1778–1789. Eastern...
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  • Irish Act of 1774 allowed any subject of George III "of whatever persuasion to testify their allegiance to him", and the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 allowed...
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    Girl Looks Good in Summer Phil Schwartz Walter Van Brunt and Chorus 1913 1778 Only a Pansy Blossom Oakland & Chorus 1913 1779 Happy Days A. Strelezki Elizabeth...
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    South Carolina Navy (category Military units and formations established in 1778)
    previously-established laws respecting the naval establishment. Throughout 1777 and 1778 the state acquired property for shipyards, and brought more ships into service...
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    session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in...
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    The National Security Act of 1947 (Pub.L. 80-253, 61 Stat. 495, enacted July 26, 1947) was a law enacting major restructuring of the United States government's...
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  • Bathsheba Spooner (category 1778 deaths)
    Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner (February 15, 1746 – July 2, 1778) was the first woman in American history to be executed following the Declaration of Independence...
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    continued to have difficulties recruiting enough white men to meet the troop quotas set by the Continental Congress in 1778, so the Rhode Island Assembly...
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    Valley Forge (category 1778 in Pennsylvania)
    Forge encampment lasted six months, from December 19, 1777, to June 19, 1778. It was the third and harshest of the eight winter encampments that Washington...
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