August 20

Event:
1774 In route to Philadelphia to attend the First Continental Congress Massachusetts delegates John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, and Robert Treat Paine, stopped in New York. While there they toured the city and are introduced to some prominent political figures of the area.

1780 The Battle of Great Savannah/Nelson’s Ferry at Great Savannah, South Carolina.

1781 George Washington having heard that the French with 3,000 troops were heading to the Chesapeake Bay area begins to move his troops from New York south to fight Cornwallis in Virginia.

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August 19

Event:
1777 Horatio Gates takes command of the Northern Army. With the assistance of field commanders Benedict Arnold, Enoch Poor and Daniel Morgan the army forced British General John Burgoyne’s surrender in October 1777.

1782 The Battle of Blue Licks, the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. It occurred almost ten months after the surrender of the British at Yorktown. It is considered a low point for the Americans, since they lost to a force made up of British regulars and Native Americans, in the struggle for possession of the western country beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

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August 18

Event:
1779 – A hurricane hits New Orleans sinking all but one of a Spanish fleet of warships. Because of this storm, William Dunbar first theorized that a hurricane revolved around a vortex in the center.

1780 - Battle of Fishing Creek, South Carolina. This American defeat opens a route to North Carolina for the British.

Birth:
1774 Explorer Meriwether Lewis, member of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

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August 17

Event:
1787 – The city of Cincinnati, Ohio is founded by John Cleves Symmes and Colonel Robert Patterson. It was originally called Losantiville, parts of four words meaning ‘city opposite the mouth of the Licking River’.

Birth:
1786 - David (Davy) Crockett, American folk hero, member of Congress and volunteer at the Alamo.

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August 16

Event:
1777 - The Battle of Bennington is a victory for the Americans. The victory galvanized the rebels and was a catalyst for French involvement in the war.

1780 - British Forces under Lt. General Charles Cornwallis routes the American forces of Major General Horatio Gates. The battle occurred about six miles north of Camden, South Carolina and is known as the Battle of Camden. American Forces numbered 4,100 of which about 3,000 were fit for duty, as opposed to 2,239 in the British force. The American’s had 1,000 killed or wounded and another 1000 captured by the British.

1784 - The British Province of New Brunswick is officially created by Sir Thomas Carleton.

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August 15

Event:
1776 – The first Hessian troops, a group of German mercenaries, join British forces on Staten Island. They were first used at the Battle of Long Island and continued until the end of the war.

Birth:
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France.

1771 - Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet.

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August 14

Event:
1765 Massachusetts colonists, calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, gather in Boston under a large elm tree to protest the Stamp Act. They concluded their protest by hanging the effigy of two tax collectors from the tree. After that date the tree was known as the Liberty Tree. During the siege of Boston, in August of 1775, Loyalists defiantly cut the tree down in an act of spite and used the tree for firewood.

1779 The Continental Congress approves a peace plan with the British. It specified independence, complete withdrawal of British forces from Colonies and freedom of navigation on the Mississippi River as conditions.

1781 General George Washington receives word from French Admiral Count de Grasse indicating his entire 29-ship French fleet with 3000 soldiers is now heading for the Chesapeake Bay near General Cornwallis who is at Yorktown, Virginia. Washington decides to abandon his plans of attacking New York and begins moving his troops south to Virginia.

1784 Grigory Shelikhov, Russian merchant establishes the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska on Kodiak Island. The village is named Three Saints Bay after one of the ships.

Birth:
1777 Hans Christian Oersted, Danish Physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetism in 1819.

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August 13

Event:
1788 – To prevent spreading of the War between Sweden and Russian, Prussia joins the Dutch and English alliance to form a Triple Alliance.

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August 12

Event:
1778 – A hurricane type storm prevents a naval battle between the British and the French.

Birth:
1781 - Robert Mills, the architect of the Washington Monument, is born in Charleston, South Carolina.

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August 11

Events:
1772 - The first historical eruption of the Papandayan volcano in Indonesia. It causes an avalanche that destroys 40 villages and kills nearly 3000 persons.

1780 - Barbados hurricane also known as the Great Hurricane of 1780 begins.

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