Revolutionary History: Week 3 of November
This week in Revolutionary History was quiet, yet, it was explosive. Both of the events that happened have to do with the Colonists victory over he British...
~ November 30, 1782: Americans and British sign a preliminary peace deal.
Ben Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay (very later on joined by Henry Laurens) conducted secret meetings with the British through their peace commissioner Richard Oswald. Most of these meetings did not occur in person, until the very end, because the United States promised the French they would not meet with any British peace makers without French commissioners in attendance. A preliminary agreement was reached (not the official Treaty of Paris) and it was signed on November 30, 1782.
~ November 25, 1783: Evacuation Day, New York City
On this day in history the city of New York was officially turned back over to George Washington and the newly minted United States. Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his headquarters north of the city, across the Harlem River, and south through Manhattan to The Battery at its southern tip.
The official departure time was scheduled for noon. There is said to have been a scuffle between a British officer and a boarding house proprietress because she acted defiantly and raised her American flag before noon. After the British departed, the city was secured by American troops under the command of General Henry Knox. The one point of trouble they had was that the British left a final gift for the Americans... a greased flagpole with a British flag nailed to the top.
~ November 30, 1782: Americans and British sign a preliminary peace deal.
Ben Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay (very later on joined by Henry Laurens) conducted secret meetings with the British through their peace commissioner Richard Oswald. Most of these meetings did not occur in person, until the very end, because the United States promised the French they would not meet with any British peace makers without French commissioners in attendance. A preliminary agreement was reached (not the official Treaty of Paris) and it was signed on November 30, 1782.~ November 25, 1783: Evacuation Day, New York City
On this day in history the city of New York was officially turned back over to George Washington and the newly minted United States. Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his headquarters north of the city, across the Harlem River, and south through Manhattan to The Battery at its southern tip.
The official departure time was scheduled for noon. There is said to have been a scuffle between a British officer and a boarding house proprietress because she acted defiantly and raised her American flag before noon. After the British departed, the city was secured by American troops under the command of General Henry Knox. The one point of trouble they had was that the British left a final gift for the Americans... a greased flagpole with a British flag nailed to the top.
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