Making of America
On this day in 1718, Francois-Louis-Frederic Haldimand, who would help bring the United Empire Loyalists and Six Nations of Iroquois to...
Making of America
On this day in 1776, news reaches London that the Americans had drafted the Declaration of Independence. Until the Declaration of...
Making of America
On Staten Island on this day in 1776, Guy Johnson, British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, returns from England and shares his...
Making of America
On this day in 1775, Captain Daniel Morgan and his Virginia riflemen arrive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Earlier, Morgan had earned the...
Making of America
On this day in 1782, in Newburgh, New York, General George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, creates the “Badge...
Making of America
On this day in 1777, 800 of Patriot General Nicholas Herkimer’s militiamen from Tryon, County, New York, are ambushed as they attempt to...
Making of America
On this day in 1779, Lieutenant Colonel James DeLancey’s New York Loyalists and Patriot William Hull’s Connecticut Brigade engage in a...
Making of America
On this day in 1782, the British playwright and general, John Burgoyne, dies in England. His humiliating surrender to Patriot forces at...
Making of America
On this day in 1797, Jeffrey Amherst, who twice refused the position of commander of British forces against the rebelling American...
Making of America
On this day in 1776, members of Congress affix their signatures to an enlarged copy of the Declaration of Independence. Fifty-six...
