The Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 (also known as the Philadelphia Mutiny) was an anti-government protest by nearly 400 soldiers of the Continental Army in...
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Quartering Acts (redirect from Mutiny Act of 1765)
with housing and food. Each of the Quartering Acts was an amendment to the Mutiny Act and required annual renewal by Parliament. They were originally intended...
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Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially...
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present-day Springettsbury Township. Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 (June 20, 1783) Battle of Brandywine, parts of the vast battlefield, largely on private...
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(2004), p. 5. "First Shots of War, 1775 | The American Revolution, 1763 - 1783 | U.S. History Primary Source Timeline". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2024-04-14...
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The Pennsylvania Line Mutiny was a mutiny of Continental Army soldiers, who demanded higher pay and better housing conditions, and was the cause of the...
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American Revolution (redirect from Revolution of the United States of America)
almost to the point of mutiny or possible coup d'etat. Washington dispelled the unrest among officers of the Newburgh Conspiracy in 1783, and Congress subsequently...
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Newburgh Conspiracy (March 10–15) Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 (June 20–24) The Treaty of Paris (1783) ends the American Revolutionary War (September...
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Congress, who had convened at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in the colonial era capital of Philadelphia. The declaration...
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Lee Resolution (redirect from Resolution of independence)
News of this act was published that evening in The Pennsylvania Evening Post and the next day in The Pennsylvania Gazette. The Declaration of Independence...
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Boston Tea Party (redirect from Destruction of the tea)
protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East...
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Confederation period (redirect from Critical period of 1780s in United States)
of the 1780s. Congress met in Philadelphia from 1778 until June 1783, when it moved to Princeton, New Jersey due to the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783....
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The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, later...
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Washington, D.C. (redirect from District of Columbia, District of Columbia)
the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 to move to Princeton, Congress resolved to consider a new location for it. The following day, Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts...
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John Paul Jones (redirect from America's invasion of Whitehaven)
admitted as an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Pennsylvania when it was established in 1783. In June 1782, Jones was appointed...
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Intolerable Acts (category Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1774)
sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston...
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Thirteen Colonies (redirect from Thirteen united States of America)
French help, the Thirteen Colonies gained sovereignty with the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: the New...
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passed a set of punitive laws against Loyalists. In violation of the Treaty of Paris (1783), they called for the confiscation of the property of Loyalists...
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Benedict Arnold (category American people of English descent)
Forge, Pennsylvania, in May 1778 to the applause of men who had served under him at Saratoga. There he participated in the first recorded Oath of Allegiance...
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American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783 began in 1776 when the Kingdom of France secretly shipped supplies to the Continental Army of the Thirteen Colonies...
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Common Sense (redirect from Royal Brute of England)
opposite effect. Paine secured the assistance of the Bradford brothers, publishers of The Pennsylvania Evening Post, and released his new edition, featuring...
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Wilhelm von Knyphausen (category Hessian military personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
temporary absence of Sir Henry Clinton in 1780, he was in command of the city. Knyphausen's regiment served in the Americas from 1776 to 1783. Knyphausen left...
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United we stand, divided we fall (category State mottos of the United States)
Liberty Song", first published on July 7, 1768, in both the Pennsylvania Journal and Pennsylvania Gazette newspapers. In the song Dickinson wrote: "Then join...
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Nathanael Greene (category American people of English descent)
the surrender of Cornwallis at the siege of Yorktown in October 1781, but Greene continued to serve in the Continental Army until late 1783. After the war...
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June 18, just two days before what would become known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783. After Congress reestablished itself in Trenton, New Jersey,...
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Robert Howe (Continental Army officer) (category Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives)
late-war mutinies by members of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Lines in New Jersey and Philadelphia and returned home to North Carolina in 1783. He again...
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Shays's Rebellion (category History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts)
When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, Massachusetts merchants' European business partners refused to extend lines of credit to them and insisted that...
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Regulator Movement in North Carolina (redirect from Regulators of North Carolina)
North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina from...
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Philadelphia continued to serve as the capital of the fledgling nation until the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783. Notable Pennsylvanians who supported the Revolution...
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138–39. Aptheker, Herbert (1960). The American Revolution, 1763–1783: a history of the American people: an interpretation. International Publishers....
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