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unusual facts about Military career of Benedict Arnold, 1777–79



19th Continental Regiment

Some of its men chose to overstay their enlistment and also saw action in the Battle of the Assunpink Creek and the Battle of Princeton in early 1777.

3rd New Hampshire Regiment

Thus, late on July 5, 1777 orders to leave Fort Ticonderoga were given, and by early morning on 6 July 1777 the 3rd Regiment was marching toward Hubbardton with the main portion of the American army under St. Clair's command.

Alte Pinakothek

After the reunion of Bavaria and the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1777, the galleries of Mannheim, Düsseldorf and Zweibrücken were moved to Munich, in part to protect the collections during the wars which followed the French revolution.

Andrew Jackson Poe

The brothers’ exploits were detailed in volume II of Theodore Roosevelt’s book, The Winning of the West from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi, 1777 - 1783.

Anna Maria Truter

Anna Maria Truter (17 August 1777 Cape Town - 15 December 1857 England) was a Cape Colony botanical artist who was married to Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet who became second Secretary to the Admiralty in 1804, and was author of "An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the Years 1797 and 1798" (London, 1801).

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais, born 18 October 1777 in Paris - died 3 January 1809, Cacabelos, Spain), Comte de l'Empire joined the French army during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

In Frankfurt-am-Main on 9 February 1792 Augustus Christian Frederick married Fredericka (b. Usingen, 30 August 1777 - d. Hochheim, 28 August 1821), daughter of Frederick Augustus, Prince of Nassau-Usingen and later (1806) Duke of Nassau.

Avot of Rabbi Natan

Commentaries have been written by Eliezer Lipman of Zamość, Zolkiev, 1723; by Elijah ben Abraham with notes by The Vilna Gaon, Wilna, 1833; by Abraham Witmand, Ahabat Ḥesed, Amsterdam, 1777; and by Joshua Falk, Binyan Yehoshu'a, Dyhernfurth, 1788.

Battle of Rhode Island

Major General Joseph Spencer had been ordered by Major General George Washington to launch an assault on Newport in 1777, but he had not done so, and was removed from command of the Rhode Island defenses.

Besiki

In 1777, he was accused of impiety by Catholicos Anton, who named him as the Antichrist and denounced him to the King.

Bob Benge

In one of his early raids, in spring, 1777 he is said to have captured two women while operating around Fort Blackmore, Virginia.

Chandos House

In 1813 the house was still home to Anna Eliza Brydges, Duchess of Chandos, whom the 3rd Duke had married as his second wife in 1777.

David McGregor

David McGregore (1710–1777), member of colonial America Christian clergy

Eduard Clam-Gallas

He was the eldest son of Count Christian Christoph Clam-Gallas (1771–1838), patron of Beethoven, and Countess Josephine Clary-Aldringen (1777–1828).

Elizabeth Montagu

In 1777, she began work on Montagu House in Portman Square in London, moving in in 1781, on land leased for 99 years.

Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby

In 1841 the murder of Mrs Jane Robinson (née Wilson 1777) was one of the first cases in which an officer from Scotland Yard was sent to investigate a serious crime in the provinces.

Foreign relations of Tonga

The British explorer James Cook led expeditions to Tonga in 1773, 1774 and 1777.

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

In Ebersdorf on 13 June 1777, Franz Frederick married Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf und Lobenstein.

Frederick Beadon

Beadon, third son of the Rev. Edward Beadon, rector of North Stoneham, was born in London on 6 December 1777.

Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1717 in Grave – 1777 in Barchfeld) was the oldest son of Landgrave William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld and his wife, Charlotte of Anhalt-Bernberg.

Gage's Regiment of Militia

With the surrender of Burgoyne's Army on October 17, the regiment acted as part of the guard for the prisoners to Prospect Hill and disbanded on November 7, 1777.

Germanos Adam

In 1777 he became archbishop of Aleppo; anyway due to the persecution by the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch he dwelt for most of his life in Zouk Mikael, Lebanon.

Harriet Raikes

Harriet Raikes was the daughter of Thomas Raikes the Younger, a merchant and banker in London, and the granddaughter of Thomas Raikes the Elder, also merchant and banker in London and Governor of the Bank of England from 1797 to 1799.

Harrison family of Virginia

John Cleves Symmes (1742–1814), Father-in-law of William Henry Harrison, Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court 1777–1787, Delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey 1785–1786, Justice of the Northwest Territory Supreme Court 1788–1802.

Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk

The peerages created for him died out with his grandson the 9th Duke in 1777, though the current Baron Mowbray descends from the 9th Duke.

Jakob Abbadie

An English translation, entitled A Sovereign Antidote against Arian Poyson, appeared in London, 1719, and again "revised, corrected, and, in a few places, abridged", by Abraham Booth, under the title of The Deity of Jesus Christ essential to the Christian Religion, 1777.

Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi

In April 1819, Sismondi married a Welshwoman, Jessie Allen (1777–1853), whose sister, Catherine Allen, was the wife of Sir James Mackintosh and another sister, Elizabeth Allen, was the wife of Josiah Wedgwood II and mother of Emma Wedgwood.

Johann Gottlieb Naumann

In 1777, as a result of negotiations by Swedish diplomat Count Löwenhjelm, Naumann was appointed to reform the Stockholm Hovkapell and assist King Gustavus III in his opera plans.

John Aitkin

John the Painter (1752–1777), Scot who committed acts of terror in British naval dockyards in 1776–77

John Glynne

Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet (1712–1777), Member of Parliament for Flintshire and Flint

John Jones of Ystrad

John Jones "of Ystrad" (September 15, 1777 – November 10, 1842), was a Welsh politician, MP for Carmarthen from 1821 to 1832.

Lambert Blackwell Larking

For many years Larking collaborated with the Revd Thomas Streatfeild (1777–1848), in the collection and compilation of materials for a new history of the county of Kent and, when Streatfeild died in 1848 the materials were left in Larking's hands.

Langrishe baronets

It was created on 19 February 1777 for Sir Hercules Langrishe, who represented Knocktopher in the Irish House of Commons.

Loammi Baldwin

His five sons, Cyrus Baldwin (1773–1854), Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (1777–1821), Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780–1834), James Fowle Baldwin (1782–1862), and George Rumford Baldwin (1798–1888) were also well-known engineers.

Louis Lebègue Duportail

Promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Royal Corps of Engineers, Duportail was secretly sent to America in March 1777 to serve in Washington's Continental Army under an agreement between Benjamin Franklin and the government of King Louis XVI of France.

Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

However, that same summer of 1777, the dowager countess was seduced by a charming and wily Anglo-Irish adventurer, Andrew Robinson Stoney, who manipulated his way into her household and her bed.

Matthew Cotes Wyatt

Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1777 – 3 January 1862) was a painter and sculptor and a member of the Wyatt family, who were well known in the Victorian era as architects and sculptors.

Merzweiler

Bückler’s grandfather Otto Philipp Bückler was born about 1709 in Hilscheid in the Idar Forest near Thalfang, worked as a headsman and a knacker and died in 1777 in Merzweiler.

Montería

According to Castro's book, Montería was founded on May 1, 1777 by Spanish officer Antonio de la Torre y Miranda, being governor of the Province of Cartagena officer Juan de Torrezar Díaz Pimienta.

New Windsor, New York

James Clinton 1736–1812 - In command of NY Troops with Gen Montgomery in assault on Quebec 1775 - commander of construction of Forts in the Hudson Highlands, wounded and escaped capture during British Attack on Forts Clinton & Montgomery Oct. 1777.

Outerbridge Horsey

Horsey was born March 5, 1777 in Little Creek Hundred, near Laurel, Delaware.

Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau

Amalie Charlotte Wilhelmine Louise of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (Kirchheim, 7 August 1776 - Schaumburg, 19 February 1841), married firstly in Weilburg on 29 October 1793 Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and had issue, and married secondly in Schaumburg on 15 February 1813 Friedrich Freiherr von Stein-Liebenstein zu Barchfeld (14 February 1777 - 4 December 1849), and had issue

Saratoga, New York

It is best known as the location that British General John Burgoyne surrendered to American General Horatio Gates at the end of the Battles of Saratoga on October 17, 1777, often cited as the turning point for the United States during the American Revolutionary War.

Tanacharison

The Ohio Company fort was surrendered to the French by Croghan's half-brother, Edward Ward, and commanded by his business partner, William Trent, but Croghan's central role in these events remains suppressed, as he himself was in 1777, when Pittsburgh's president judge, Committee of Safety chairman, and person keeping the Ohio Indians pacificed since Pontiac's Rebellion was declared a traitor by General Edward Hand and exiled from the frontier.

Tassie

William Tassie (1777-1860), Scottish gem engraver and modeller, nephew of James

Thomas Gaddis

From September 1776 to January 1777, Gaddis was stationed near Beech Bottom, West Virginia, about ten miles north of Fort Henry (West Virginia).

Uckerby

It was briefly held by James Riddell and his son from 1777 to around 1872 before being bought once again by the lord of the manor of Ellerton-on-Swale.

Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

He married (1) Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways, daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester, on 24 August 1777.

William Byrd III

William Byrd III (September 6, 1728 – January 1 or January 2, 1777) was the son of William Byrd II and the grandson of William Byrd I.

William Disney

In 1777 he became vicar of Pluckley in Kent, a living in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, where he died 28 March 1807.


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