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Friday, July 08
On This Date In 1675 Native Americans attacked at Middleborough and Dartmouth (July 8), Mendon (July 14), Brookfield (August 2), and Lancaster (August 9). In early September they attacked Deerfield, Hadley, and Northfield. King Philip's War, sometimes called Metacom's War, and named after the m...
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Friday, July 01
On This Date In 1097 The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade between the crusaders and the Seljuk Turks, near Dorylaeum in Anatolia. The crusaders left Nicaea on June 26, with a deep distrust of the Byzantines, who had taken the city without their knowledge after a long sieg...
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Friday, June 24
On This Date In 1148 The Council of Acre met at Palmarea, near Acre, a major city of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Haute Cour of Jerusalem met with recently-arrived crusaders from Europe, to decide on the best target for the crusade. In the end, the decision was made to attack the city ...
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Friday, June 17
On This Date In 1579 During his circumnavigation of the world, English seaman Francis Drake anchored in a harbor just north of present-day San Francisco, California, and claimed the territory for Queen Elizabeth I, calling the land “Nova Albionâ€. On This Date In 1775 The Battle of Bunker Hi...
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Friday, June 10
On This Date In 1619 The Battle of Sablat, during the Bohemian period of the Thirty Years' War, was fought between the Roman Catholic army of Karel Bonaventura Buquoy (who was victorious) and the Protestant army of Ernst von Mansfeld. On This Date In 1692 In Salem Village in the Massachusett...
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Friday, June 03
On This Date In 1755 The Battle of Fort Beauséjour marked the opening of a British offensive in the French and Indian War (the North American theater of the Seven Years' War), and was fought June 3 - June 16. On This Date In 1780 The reviled former royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutch...