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Historical Event(s)
– The American Revolutionary War’s first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
– American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
– The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
– Benedict Arnold’s expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
– American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
– Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).
– The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
– John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
– The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
Who Were Born On ?
– Walter Savage Landor, English writer (d. 1864)
– Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
– Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (d. 1870)
– Lucien Bonaparte, French politician, soldier and academic (d. 1840)
– Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
– Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
– Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (d. 1844)
– Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
– François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (d. 1834)