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    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...
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  • Rockingham ministry may refer to: First Rockingham ministry, the British government led by Lord Rockingham from 1765 to 1766 Second Rockingham ministry...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • This article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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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    Pitt–Newcastle ministry Bute ministry Grenville ministry First Rockingham ministry Chatham ministry Grafton ministry North ministry Second Rockingham ministry Shelburne...
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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...
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    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...
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    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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    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...
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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...
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  • George Grenville (1763–1765) First Rockingham ministry, the government under Lord Rockingham (1765–1766) Chatham ministry, the government under Lord Chatham...
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    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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    sent back to Europe for ratification by the other parties involved, the first reaching France in March 1784. British ratification occurred on April 9...
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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...
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    Chesapeake Bay, where Cornwallis had taken command of the army. Cornwallis, at first given confusing orders by his superior officer, Henry Clinton, was eventually...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • rule in the thirteen British North American colonies that would become the first United States argued that their traditional rights as Englishmen were being...
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    and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, Locke...
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    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...
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    beginning of the conflict. With that simple gesture of acknowledging the first civilian power over the military, he took his leave and returned by horseback...
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