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    The Battle of Alamance, which took place on May 16, 1771, was the final confrontation of the Regulator Movement, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina...
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    James Hunter. He refused to take command of the Regulators after Husband's departure before the Battle of Alamance. Captain Benjamin Merrill had about 300...
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    5217 Alamance Battleground is a North Carolina State Historic Site commemorating the Battle of Alamance. The historic site is located south of Burlington...
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    the basis of the railroad and interstate highway routes. Alamance County was named after Great Alamance Creek, site of the Battle of Alamance (May 16,...
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  • militia of Rowan County, North Carolina. He sided with the Regulator Movement in North Carolina, and was captured following the Battle of Alamance on May...
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    Regulators effectively ended the war (Battle of Alamance). The region around Alamance was also the site of a defeat of British Loyalists in the American Revolutionary...
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    Yadkin River on May 9, 1771, just a week prior to the Battle of Alamance, the final battle of the conflict. Governor William Tryon had dispatched Gen...
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  • Herman Husband (category Expelled members of the North Carolina General Assembly)
    Harmon Cox, at the Battle of Alamance and later carried by Husband when he fled to Somerset County, Pennsylvania, was donated to the Alamance Battlefield North...
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  • Outlander is a historical drama television series based on the Outlander series of historical time travel novels by Diana Gabaldon. Developed by Ronald D. Moore...
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  • and security of her plantation's future over his idealism. Jamie's loyalties are pushed to the breaking point at the Battle of Alamance, when Roger's...
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    the site of the Battle of Alamance, fought in 1771 between the colonial militia under the command of Governor William Tryon. When Alamance County was...
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  • Francis Nash (category Members of the North Carolina House of Burgesses)
    alongside Governor William Tryon in the Battle of Alamance against the Regulator militia. He served in the "Lower House" of the colonial Assembly in 1771 and...
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    William Tryon (category Governors of the Province of New York)
    the Battle of Alamance. Following the battle, Tryon ordered the execution of seven alleged Regulators, convicted by Judge Richard Henderson. Most of the...
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    defeated the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance in May 1771. Several trials were held after the war, resulting in the hanging of six Regulators at Hillsborough...
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    Yadkin River (category Rivers of North Carolina)
    William Tryon's army at the Battle of Alamance, a colonial force was intercepted along the Yadkin in Rowan County by a larger force of Regulators formed under...
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  • The Battle of Osawatomie was an armed engagement that occurred on August 30, 1856, when 250–400 pro-slavery Border ruffians, led by John W. Reid, attacked...
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  • 2022-12-22. McPherson, James M. (1988). Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era. Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana. New York. ISBN 0-19-503863-0...
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    The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, placing...
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    Boston Massacre (category 1770 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay)
    in the year. In the days and weeks following the incident, a propaganda battle was waged between Patriots and Loyalists in Boston. Both sides published...
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  • Massacre, Boston, Massachusetts 1771 - Battle of Alamance, Last battle of War of the Regulation, May 1771, Alamance, North Carolina 1772 - Gaspee Affair...
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    Samuel Johnston (category Members of the North Carolina House of Burgesses)
    (October 2009). "The Battle of Alamance: A Reanalysis of the Historical and Documentary Records". North Carolina Division of Archives and History Report...
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    Horn in the West (category Cultural depictions of Daniel Boone)
    Revolution between the Battle of Alamance in 1771 and the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. The story follows the family of Dr. Geoffrey Stuart, a British...
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  • governor led a force of a thousand men into the heart of the uprising, but Regulators led twice that number into the Battle of Alamance. The insurgents lacked...
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  • James Moore (Continental Army officer) (category American people of the Indian Wars)
    and commanded the colonial governor's artillery at the Battle of Alamance, which ended the War of the Regulation. In addition to his military involvement...
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    of the Executive Council of Pennsylvania to stop it, ultimately resulted in Congress of the Confederation vacating Philadelphia and the creation of a...
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  • conquest of the Levant Battle of Akraba (632) (a.k.a. Battle of Yemama) – "Apostate Wars" Battle of Alalia – 535 BCE – Greek–Punic Wars Battle of Alamance –...
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    U.S. state of North Carolina is divided into 100 counties. North Carolina ranks 28th in size by area, but has the seventh-highest number of counties in...
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    Griffith Rutherford (category Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives)
    participated in the Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771). The following month, Rutherford retired to Salem to recover from an acute attack of gout. Rutherford...
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    Fries's Rebellion (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Dictionary of American Biography)
    among Pennsylvania Dutch farmers between 1799 and 1800. It was the third of three tax-related rebellions in the 18th century United States, the earlier...
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    In the early decades of the 19th century, there were significant increases in the city's black population, as large numbers of freed and fugitive slaves...
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