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The Case of the Missing Library Books
by Katie Lambert | April 21, 2010
I have an ongoing fight with a certain HowStuffWorks.com publisher who shall remain nameless because he 1) once worked at a library where his job was to destroy the old books and 2) dogears his library books. These are unpardonable offenses in my book. I am, however, far more lenient about overdue fines, which is good for George Washington — who is, I’m sure, very concerned about my opinion of him.
What was Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment?
by Katie Lambert | February 22, 2010
Black soldiers fought at the early important battles of the war: Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill. But when Washington took charge of the Continental Army, he decreed that recruitment of black soldiers was at an end, and he later purged the remaining soldiers from his army. It seems the idea of armed blacks was a great enough threat to risk losing a war for.
With this ban, the embattled royal governor of Virginia saw his chance. On Nov. 14, 1775, he issued a proclamation declaring that he’d free any slaves who joined the Loyalists in their fight.
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