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The naval Battle of Portland, or Three Days' Battle, took place during 18–20 February 1653 (28 February – 2 March 1653 (Gregorian calendar)), [a] during the First Anglo-Dutch War, when the fleet of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake was attacked by a fleet of the Dutch Republic under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp escorting merchant shipping through the English ...
The 8th Massachusetts Regiment, also known as 16th Continental Regiment and Sargent's Regiment, was raised on April 23, 1775, under Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Bunker Hill , New York and New Jersey Campaign , Battle of Trenton , Battle of Princeton and the Battle of ...
Vassall's house and all his other properties were confiscated by Patriots in September 1774 on the eve of the American Revolutionary War because he was accused of being loyal to the King. [8] He fled to Boston and later to England where he died in 1792. [9] 1854 image of the home labeled as "Headquarters, Cambridge 1775" in reference to George ...
The 9th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was a military unit from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, part of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. It is also known as "The Fighting Ninth". It existed from 1861 to 1864 and participated in several key battles during the war.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
Known for their distinctive Tiffany-embroidered green flag and Gaelic war cry, "Faugh a Ballagh" (Clear the Way), the Irishmen of the 28th Massachusetts saw action in most of the Union Army's major eastern theatre engagements – Antietam, [3] [4] Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Overland Campaign, and the siege of Petersburg ...
Amendment (listed June 30, 1983, refnum 83004293): Massachusetts Ave. and Garden, Waterhouse, Cambridge, and Peabody Sts. Boundary increase and decrease (listed January 26, 1987 , refnum 87000499): Roughly northwest of Waterhouse St. on Concord Ave. between Garden and Follen Sts.
Old Cambridge Baptist Church from Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1869 Old Cambridge Baptist Church built on Harvard Street. North Cambridge Choral Society organized. [17] 1870 - Soldiers' Monument dedicated on Cambridge Common [36] 1871 Cambridge Social Union founded. [21] Alpha Glee Club organized. [17]