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| | John Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | John Gray (American Revolutionary War) is one of the candidates for the last surviving veteran of the American Revolutionary War | | | John Gray (playwright) is the Canadian playwright best known for Billy Bishop Goes to War. | | | John Gray (North Carolina) was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly in the late 18th century. |
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| | Captain Robert Gray |
| | In his early twenties he served in the navy during the Revolutionary War, probably aboard a privateer. | | | Despite the information given him by the American, Vancouver believed that he could not have passed any "safe navigable opening". | | | After the war he continued his career at sea. |
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http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gray.htm
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| | Gray Family |
| | David Gray served as a militia Captain in the Revolutionary War, and probably went with his brother Joseph to Washington Co. VA after the war. | | | Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution. | | | John Gray was in Randolph Co. NC by the time of the Revolution, marrying Jannet Greer here in 1776 and serving as a Captain in the 3rd NC regiment in 1778. |
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http://www.duke.edu/web/chlamy/gray.html
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| | American Revolution. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Some of the more radical Revolutionary leaders were disappointed in the turn toward conservatism when the Revolution was over, but liberty and democracy had been fixed as the highest ideals of the United States. | | | It is also called the American War of Independence. | | | John Sullivan led an expedition (1779) against the British and Native Americans in upper New York. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/am/AmerRev.html
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| | African American Freedom Fighters: Soldiers for Liberty |
| | Attucks' martyrdom is said to have acted as a catalyst for the American colonists' eventual war for liberty and freedom from British rule. | | | Despite discriminatory practices and segregated units, Black Americans proved their valor, and 1,300 were eventually commissioned and promoted to the ranks of officers in the United States Military for their duty in World War I. Six major units served in this war: the 92nd, 93rd, 369th, 370th, 371st, 372nd. | | | During the American Civil War, Douglass was a forceful leader and "urged Lincoln to free the slaves and arm all Negro men." Douglass' own two sons were among the first to serve the Union forces in the Civil War. |
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http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaffsfl.htm
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| | The Buckeye Chronicles - Noble County and John Gray |
| | John Gray, the last surviving soldier of the American Revolutionary War, lived in Noble County and died there of old age near the town of Hiramsburg in 1868. | | | When 16, he took up the musket of his father who had fallen at White Plains and carried it until the Revolutionar War was over. | | | The Buckeye Chronicles - Noble County and John Gray |
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| | American Revolution - War At Sea |
| | Another of America's new Naval Officers was John Barry, (1745–1803), regarded as one of the most skillful and daring American commanders in the Revolutionary War. | | | This was the first capture in action of a British vessel by a commissioned American warship. | | | During the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) he was a successful privateer. |
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http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/SEA.HTM
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| | Chapter 6: The War of 1812 |
| | Dearborn had had a good record in the Revolutionary War and had served as Jefferson's Secretary of War. | | | On the American side, both General Brown and General Scott were severely wounded, Scott so badly that he saw no further service during the war. | | | American strategy had centered on the conquest of Canada and the harassment of British shipping; but the land campaign failed, and during most of the war the Navy was bottled up behind a tight British blockade of the North American coast. |
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http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-06.htm
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| | FAMILY STUFF |
| | His father was William L. Gray, Scottish-American, of Cambridge, New York, who married into the Mohawks of Akwesasne following his service as an American Revolutionary War soldier, and who became an important interpreter. | | | The legend of John Gray, the fur hunter and Native rights activist and organizer of what may well have been the first labor strikes in the American West, has carried well through the generations. | | | John Gray's wife, a Caughnawaga Mohawk, Marienne Neketichon, was born ca. |
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| | Robert Gray Elementary School |
| | Robert Gray (1755-1860) was an American explorer who had previously been in the Navy during the Revolutionary War. | | | Gray was the first American-born in an America ship to circumnavigate the globe. | | | In 1791, he led another expedition to the northwest coast on a ship called "Columbia." In 1792, Gray sighted, named and sailed up the Columbia River in Oregon, and also explored Gray's Harbor in what is now the state of Washington. |
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http://www.longview.k12.wa.us/rg/history.htm
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| | Operations: Southern Theater |
| | Moss, B. "Role of the Scots and Scotch-Irish in the Southern Campaigns in the War of American Independence, 1780-3." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of St. Andrews, 1979. | | | Olson, Gary D. "Thomas Brown, Partisan, and the Revolutionary War in Georgia, 1777-1782." Georgia Historical Quarterly, 54 (Spring-Summer 1970), pp. | | | Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States. |
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http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/revbib/southo.htm
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| | The Boston Massacre - Crispus Attucks - African-American History Through the Arts |
| | It also shows clearly that this man was the first black man to fall in the American Revolutionary war. | | | Through research we can conclude that Paul Reveres and John Pufford were both important factors in capturing what really happened in "The Boston Massacre" and that Crispus Attucks was the first black to fall in the American Revolution. | | | This drawing is a reminder to all Americans that their "Independence" did not come at a free price, but it came by the blood and sweat of brave men like Paul Revere that stood up and spoke about what was really going on. |
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http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/african-american/precivil/boston.htm
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| | Civil War - Hearts of Blue & Gray - Civil War Sites - Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
| | This list of Civil War sites was compiled by the Convention and Visitors Bureau. | | | At the end of the war, only one of the four original forts remained standing -- Fort D. It was the most heavily armed of the forts, with both 24- and 32- pound cannons that could fire across the Mississippi River to challenge any Confederate gunboats that might try to move north. | | | During the war it was used as a United States smallpox hospital. |
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http://rosecity.net/civilwar/capesites
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| | Amazon.com: The Battle for New York: Books |
| | I highly recommend this book to anyone that has a basic understanding of the Revolutionary War and is looking for a slightly different perspective than that presented in many general histories. | | | The author also provides detailed itineraries for touring the surprisingly many Revolutionary War sites that can still be seen in the expanse of New York's 19th and 20th Century sprawl. | | | This, as Barnet Schecter's brilliant history, "The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution", is an undeserved slight to New York. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802713742?v=glance
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| | Revolution Quotes |
| | Most Americans that are interested in history are interested in the Civil War, which they say defines America. | | | -George Washington, American Revolution, reading a letter from the Continental Congress to his officers, with this line, he averted a military coup and kept the revolution from turning in on itself. | | | -George Washington, American Revolution, at the Constitutional Convention |
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http://www.geocities.com/vincentpa.geo/patriotic/RevolutionQuotes.html
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| | MILITARIA/AMERICAN REVOLUTION at MIKE BRACKIN CIVIL WAR ANTIQUES |
| | 1776 REVOLUTIONARY WAR COMMISSION American Revolutionary War officer's commission, issued to Ensgin Benjamin Conklin, 14th Connecticut Regiment, October 21, 1776. | | | A significant Revolutionary War letter (Peter Anspach served as Lt, 2nd Continental Artillery and was Army Paymaster & Assoc of Alex Hamilton). | | | SOLDIER WHO KNEW WASHINGTON Azor Patchin served 2 years in Col Swift's 2nd Connecticut Regiment during the Revolutionary War. |
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| | African Americans in the Navy: A Bibliography |
| | Quarles, Benjamin A. The Negro in the Civil War. | | | World War II Letters American Women in Uniform. | | | Green, Lorenzo J. "The Negro in the War of 1812 and the Civil War." Negro History Bulletin (Mar. 1951): 133. |
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http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq57-1.htm
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| | Africans in America Part 2 Resource Bank Contents |
| | • Fath Ruffins on slavery's decline at the end of the Revolutionary War | | | • Fath Ruffins on free blacks at the end of the Revolutionary War | | | • John Kaminski on post-war America in the 1780s |
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| | This study analyzes the history of the 24th Infantry regiment in the Korean War to determine the quality of its performance during that conflict. | | | However, after additional letters from War secretary Benjamin and General Lee, the Negro Soldier Law was signed on 3/13/65. | | | He also asked if native Americans were due an apology by those who aided in the genocide of his people. |
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http://www.aawar.net
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| | John Gray: Information From Answers.com |
| | Gray's site further claims that "at the time John Gray graduated and received his degree CPU was a highly respected school in its field"; however, in 1997 California's Deputy Attorney General Asher Rubin called it "a diploma mill which has been preying on California consumers for too many years"[5] (http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/dec24/chileno.html). | | | He is currently married to Bonnie Gray and has three daughters, Laren, Julie and Shannon. | | | Gray was born in Houston, Texas, in 1951; his education is discussed below. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/john-gray
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| | Revolutionary History, Clarendon County, SC |
| | Don Higginbotham, The War of American Independence, 1971 | | | Wilcox, Clinton’s Narrative of The American Rebellion, 1954 | | | Revolutionary History, Clarendon County, SC General Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion Trail, Swamp Fox Trail, Clarendon County SC Revolutionary History |
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| | George Fruits: Information From Answers.com |
| | In 1865 the U.S. government paid out the last claim for the American Revolutionary War. | | | - August 6, 1876) claimed to be the last known surviving soldier of the American Revolutionary War. | | | It is possible that George Fruits is the son of a Revolutionary War veteran named George Fruit [1] (http://17762.tripod.com/fruigeor.html), and that the last surviving veteran is Daniel F. Bakeman (as listed by Department of Veterans Affairs). |
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| | The Revolutionary War Cycle of U.S. History |
| | Later when they had become stern patrons, like Old Ben Franklin, they watched as a young civic generation, SandH called the Republicans, brought the colonies together, during a secular event we all remember as the American Revolution, and wrestled independence from Europe. | | | The American Revolution - Companion site to "Liberty" | | | Wealth of Nations (1776), France declares war on Britain (1778), Spain declares war on England (1779). |
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| | The New York Review of Books: The World Is Round |
| | Even so, they did not end war and tyranny and usher in a new era of peace and plenty. | | | American nationalism may already be acting as a brake on globalization. | | | Most strikingly, there is no mention of the war in Afghanistan. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18154
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| | EASY/UNITED STATES HISTORY |
| | The Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue and the Gray. | | | The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. | | | The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800. |
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http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/easyushist.html
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| | Civil War Artillery - Links |
| | Military history: United States Civil War, from the Canadian Forces College | | | Civil War Heavy Artillery from Mirkwood's Civil War Page. | | | Civil War Field Fortifications is a superb site with detailed descriptions of the period fortifications in which the artillery the Civil War was so often employed. |
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| | History Links |
| | Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress | | | (your one stop for every important 18th century American Document, from the 1745 Albany Plan of Union to GW's Farewell Address of 1796) | | | War in a Small Town - History of Little Cow Neck |
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