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Table of Contents

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Introduction

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May 8, 1775 - Richard Henderson Begins Organizing Transylvania Colony - Transylvania Compact

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February 07, 1775 - Ben Franklin Delivers An Imaginary Speech

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February 20, 1775 - Parliament Passes the Conciliatory Resolution

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March 8, 1775 - Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America" published.

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March 10, 1775 - Daniel Boone Begins Blazing Wilderness Road

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March 17, 1775 - Treaty of Sycamore Shoals

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March 20, 1775 - Second Virginia Convention

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March 23, 1775 - Patrick Henry Proclaims "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death"

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March 29, 1775 - John Brown Letter to Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety

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March 30, 1775 - King George Endorses New England Restraining Act

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April 01, 1775 - Daniel Boone establishes Boonesborough, Kentucky

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April 07, 1775 - Henry Hamilton Appointed British Lieutenant Governor Of Detroit

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April 08, 1775 - Massachusetts Provincial Congress Votes to Establish an Army

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April 13, 1775 - Lord North Extended The New England Restraining Act

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April 14, 1775 - British General Gage Receives Orders to Disarm American Rebels

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April 15, 1775 - British General Gage Receives Report from Spy

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April 18, 1775 - British General Gage Assembles His Force

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April 18, 1775 - Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

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April 19, 1775 - Battle of Lexington and Concord

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April 19, 1775 - Siege of Boston

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April 20, 1775 - Artemas Ward Takes Command of Massachusetts Militia

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April 21, 1775 - Virginia Royal Governor John Murray Siezed Gunpowder at Williamsburg

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April 22, 1775 - British Navy Seizes John Brown's Flour

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April 22, 1775 - Virginia Royal Governor John Murray Threatens to Free the Slaves

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April 23, 1775 - Mob Seizes Weapons in New York Armory

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April 25, 1775 - Richard Henderson Calls for Transylvania Elections

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April 28, 1775 - Moses Brown Enters Boston

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April 29, 1775 - Committee of Sixty Signed "General Association;" Agreeing To Obey the Continental Congress

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Late April or Early May, 1791 - John Brown Trial Before Chief Justice Peter Oliver

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Late April 1775 - Fort Ticonderoga Action Begins

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May 02, 1775 - Connecticut Militiamen and Ethan Allen Discuss Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

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May 03, 1775 - Massachusetts Commissions Benedict Arnold to Capture Fort Ticonderoga

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May 03, 1775 - Hanover County Militia Arrives at Williamsburg

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May 04, 1775 - Patrick Henry Receives Payment for Gunpowder

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May 05, 1775 - Ben Franklin Arrives in Philadelphia

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May 5, 1775- HMS Falcon Captures Two American Ships Triggering First Naval Action

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May 06, 1775 - Arnold Reaches Deerfield, Massachusetts

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May 06, 1775 - Dunmore Charges Patrick Henry with Extortion

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May 07, 1775 - Arnold Reaches Bennington

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May 6, 1775 - New Jersey Royal Governor William Franklin Reports to Earl of Dartmouth - Little Chance of Reconciliation

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May 08, 1775 - Allen and Militia Meet at Castleton

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May 08, 1775 - Varnum's Regiment Organized

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May 09, 1775 - Thompson's War

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May 09, 1775 – Captain Ichabod Jones Departs Boston for Machias

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May 10, 1775 - Second Continental Congress Convenes

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May 10, 1775 - Edward Rutledge Attends First Meeting Second Continental Congress

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May 10, 1775 - Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold Capture Fort Ticonderoga

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May 10, 1775 - Thomas Gage Sends Letter to Guy Johnson - Enlist the Indians

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May 12, 1775 - Green Mountain Boys Capture Fort Crown Point

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May 14, 1775 - Benedict Arnold Departs Ticonderoga

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May 15, 1775 - Lyman Hall Admitted as Parish of St. John's Delegate from Georgia

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May 18, 1775 – Benedict Arnold Captures Fort St. Johns

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Mid May 1775 - Moses Hazen Reports Ticonderoga Loss to Guy Carleton

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May 21, 1775 - Battle of Grape Island

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May 22, 1775 - New Hampshire Provincial Congress Voted To Muster 2,000 Men

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May 23, 1775 - Transylvania House of Delegates Meets at Boonesborough

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May 25, 1775 - General Gage Receives Reinforcements

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May 26, 1775 - HMS Asia Sails into New York Harbor

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May 27, 1775 - Battle of Battle of Chelsea Creek

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May 29, 1775 - Continental Congress Sends Second Letter to Quebec People

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May 29, 1775 - Colonel Benjamin Hinman Receives Orders to Reinforce Fort Ticonderoga

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May 31, 1775 - Mecklenburg NC Committee Passes the Mecklenburg Resolutions

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May 31, 1775 - Guy Johnson Flees the Mohawk Valley

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June 02, 1775 - Icabod Jones Arrives in Machias

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June 3, 1775, Congress Appoints Committee to Draft Appeal to the King

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June 03, 1775 - Massachusetts Provincial Congress Members Arrive to Investigate Benedict Arnold

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June 06, 1775 - Icabod Jones’ Meeting in Machias

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June 06, 1775 - British Use the Diana to Seize Supplies for Providence

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1775 - Ohio Company Hires George Rogers Clark to Survey in Kentucky

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June 08, 1775 - British Royal Governor John Murray Takes Refuge on British Warship

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June 10, 1775 - John Adams Proposes Continental Army

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June 11, 1775 - Attack on Moore and Jones

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June 12, 1775 - Battle of Machias

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June 12, 1775 - General Gage Proclamation

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June 12, 1775 - Rhode Island Establishes A Naval Force

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June 13, 1775 - Massachusetts Committee of Safety Learns of British Offensive

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June 14, 1775 - Continental Congress Assumes Control of the Continental Army

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June 14, 1775 - Alexander Hamilton Appears on List of the Militia Corsicans

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June 15, 1775 - John Adams Nominates George Washington Commander in Chief

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June 15, 1775 - Rhode Island Navy Recaptures the Diana

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June 17, 1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill

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June 17, 1775 - Rufus Putnam Begins as Engineer of Defensive Works

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June 16, 1775 - Continental Congress Creates Post of Quartermaster General

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June 16, 1775 - Benjamin Hinman Arrives at Fort Ticonderoga

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June 19, 1775 - Continental Congress Commissions George Washington as Commander in Chief

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June 21, 1775 - Israel Putnam Appointed Major General in Continental Army

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July 21, 1775 - Benjamin Franklin Submits His Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union

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June 22, 1775 - Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment Organized

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June 23, 1775 - Green Mountain Boys Authorized as Continental Army Regiment

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June 23, 1775 - Congress Authorizes Committee to Draft Declaration of Arms

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June 22, 1775 – Congress Chooses Northern Department Generals

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June 23, 1775 - Washington Departs Philadelphia for Massachusetts

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June 23, 1775 - Washington Appoints Thomas Mifflin as Aide-De-Camp

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June 24, 1775 - The Second Petition to the King Presented to Congress

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June 24, 1775 - Benedict Arnold Resigns Commission

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June 25, 1775 - General Washington Arrives New York

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June 25, 1775 - Governor William Tryon Arrives from England

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June 25, 1775 - Northern Department of Continental Army Established

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June 25, 1775 - Highlands Department of Continental Army Established

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June 26, 1775 - Congress Reviews Rutledge's First Draft of Washington Address

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June 26, 1775 - Washington Meets with New York Provincial Congress

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June 27, 1775 - Continental Congress Authorizes Invasion of Quebec

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June 29, 1775 - John Connolly Begins Treaty Negotiations with Indians

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July 03, 1775 - George Washington Takes Command of the Continental Army

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July 04, 1775 - Georgia Holds Provincial Congress

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July 05, 1775 - John Dickenson Revises Olive Branch Petition

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July 05, 1775 - George Washington and Henry Knox Meet

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July 06, 1775 - Congress Adopts the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

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July 08, 1775 - Olive Branch Petition Approved

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July 08, 1775 - Olive Branch Petition Given to Richard Penn

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July 09, 1775 - General Schuyler Arrives at Albany

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July 14, 1775 - Jemima Boone Kidnapped

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July 16, 1775 - Jemima Boone Rescued

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July 17, 1775 - Third Virginia Convention

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July 18, 1775 - Richard Penn Departs Philadelphia

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July 18, 1775 - General Schuyler Arrives at Fort Ticonderoga

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July 24, 1775 - John Adams Writes Two Letters

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July 25, 1775 - Benjamin Church Appointed First Surgeon General of the Army

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July 25, 1775 - Dr. John Connelly Departs Pittsburg

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July 26, 1775 - Seth Warner Selected as Commander of the Green Mountain Boys

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July 27, 1775 - Guy Johnson Meets with Iroquois

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July 27, 1775 - John Trumbull Appointed Aide De Camp

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July 29, 1775 - Refugees Land at Chelsea

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July 31, 1775- Battle of Brewster Island

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July 31, 1775 - Messenger Benjamin Hichborn Captured

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Early August, 1775 - Benedict Arnold Meets with Washington

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August 03, 1775 - General Schuyler Receives Intelligence

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August 14, 1775 - Richard Penn Arrives in London

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August 15, 1775 - American Militia Occupy Fort Pitt

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August 21, 1775 - Olive Branch Petition Presented to Lord Dartmouth

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August 22, 1775 - Connelly Departs for Boston

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August 17, 1775 - General Schuyler Attends Conference with the Six Nations at Albany

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August 20, 1775 - Washington Sends Letter to General Schuyler with Arnold's Plan

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August 23, 1775 - King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion

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August 23, 1775 - Raid on the Battery at Manhattan

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August 25, 1775 - Brigadier General Richard Montgomery Begins Invasion of Canada

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August 27, 1775 - Raid on St. John

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August 27, 1775 - King Addresses Parliament - Proclamation of Rebellion Expanded

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September 01, 1775 - King George Rejects Olive Branch Petition

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September 01, 1775 - Connelly Arrives at Boston

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September 1775 - Congressional Committee Visits General Washington to Reorganize Army

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September 2, 1775 - Benedict Arnold Begins Picking Troops

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September 04, 1775 - Invading Americans Arrive at Île aux Noix

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September 06, 1775 - First Skirmish at Fort Saint-Jean's

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September 06, 1775 - Moses Hazen Meets With General Schuyler

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September 07, 1775 - Schuyler Holds Council of War

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September 10, 1775 - Second Skirmish at Fort Saint-Jean

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September 11, 1775 - The First of Benedict Arnold's Force Leave Cambridge

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September 13, 1775 - Remaining Two Companies of Benedict Arnolds Force Departs

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September 15, 1775 - James Livingston Reports to General Philip Schuyler

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September 16, 1775 - Schuyler Turns Command over to Montgomery

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September 17, 1775 - Siege of Saint Jean’s Begins

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September 18, 1775 - Secret Committee Formed

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September 19, 1775 - Benedict Arnold and His Force Depart Newburyport

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September 23, 1775 - Arnold's Force Reaches Fort Western

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September 24, 1775 - Ethan Allen Leads Attack on Montreal

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September 28, 1775 - Benedict Arnold's Forces Reach Fort Halifax

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September 29, 1775 - Charles Cornwallis Promoted to Major General

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October 04, 1775 - Court Martial of Benjamin Church

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October 06, 1775 - "Old Sow," Arrives From Fort Ticonderoga

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October 12, 1775 - John Connelly Arrives back At Portsmouth

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October 14, 1775 - Second Battery Opens Fire on Fort St. Jean

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October 15, 1775 - HMS Royal Savage Sunk

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October 17, 1775 - Treaty of Pittsburg

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October 18, 1775 - Burning of Falmouth

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October 19, 1775 - Governor Tryon Takes Refuge on the HMS Halifax

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October 20, 1775 - American Forces Capture Fort Chambly

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October 23, 1775 - Congress Approves Fort Ticonderoga Plan

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October 30, 1775 - Battle of Longueuil

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November 03, 1775 - Fort St. John Falls

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November 04, 1775 - Removal of Bostonians to Point Shirley

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November 04, 1775 - Benjamin Church Expelled from Massachusetts Provincial Congress

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Early November 1775 - Royal Savage Raised

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November 05, 1775 - Connelly Receives Commission as Lieutenant Colonel

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November 07, 1775 - Parliament Rejects Olive Branch Petition

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November 07, 1775 - Congress Passes Law Making Treason a Capital Crime

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November 07, 1775 - Lord Dunmore's Proclamation

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November 08, 1775 - Titus Cornelius Escapes Bondage

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November 09, 1775 - Benedict Arnold's Force Arrives at Quebec

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November 09, 1775 - Henry Hamilton Assumes Command of Fort Detroit

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November 10, 1775 - Continental Marine Corps Formed

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November 10, 1775 - Lord George Germain Appointed Secretary of State for the American Department

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November 11, 1775 - Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment Forms

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November 13, 1775 - Benedict Arnold's Force Crosses the St. Lawrence River

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November 13, 1775 - Montreal Falls, Wooster Given Command of City

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November 13, 1775 - Colonel Connelly Departs For Detroit

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November 15, 1775 - Battle of Kemp's Landing

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November 20, 1775 - Dr. John Connelly Captured

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November 24, 1775 - Blacks Barred from Serving in Continental Army

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November 29, 1775 - Committee of Secret Correspondence Formed

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December 01, 1775 - Knox Departs New York for Fort Ticonderoga

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December 1, 1775 - Fourth Virginia Convention

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December 03, 1775 - The First Ships of the Continental Navy Commissioned

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December 03, 1775 - Grand Union Flag Flown First Time

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December 05, 1775 - Knox Reaches Fort Ticonderoga

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December 06, 1775 - Congress Issues Response to King's Olive Branch Rejection

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December 06, 1775 - Americans Begin Siege of Quebec

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