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Liberty's Kids (stylized on-screen as Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776) is an American animated historical fiction television series produced by WHYY and DIC Entertainment, and originally aired on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002, to April 4, 2003, with reruns airing on most PBS stations until October 10, 2004.
Horatio Gates was born on July 26, 1727, in Maldon, in the English county of Essex.His parents (of record) were Robert and Dorothea Gates. Evidence suggests that Dorothea was the granddaughter of John Hubbock Sr. (died 1692) postmaster at Fulham, and the daughter of John Hubbock Jr., listed in 1687 sources as a vintner.
Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, where the First Continental Congress passed the Continental Association on October 20, 1774. The Continental Association, also known as the Articles of Association or simply the Association, was an agreement among the American colonies adopted by the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia on October 20, 1774.
A July 4, 1776, notice sent by the Second Continental Congress to a Committee of Safety organized in Lancaster in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. In the American Revolution, committees of correspondence, committees of inspection, also known as committees of observation and committees of safety, were different local committees of Patriots that became a shadow government; they took ...
Laurens was first named a delegate to the Continental Congress on January 10, 1777. He served in the Congress until 1780. He was the president of the Continental Congress from November 1, 1777, to December 9, 1778. In the fall of 1779, the Congress named Laurens their minister to the Netherlands. In early 1780, he took up that post and ...
The first resolution adopted was obedience to recommendations made by the Continental Congress. The congress adapted a "plan of Accommodation between Great Britain and America", which it sent to its delegates to the Continental Congress urging extreme caution in the quarrel with England. The plan demanded the English authorities repeal of all ...
Charles Lee (6 February 1732 [O.S. 26 January 1731] – 2 October 1782) was a British-born American military officer who served as a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Washington appeared at the Second Continental Congress in a military uniform, signaling that he was prepared for war. [27] Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775. He was nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, who chose him in part because he was a Virginian and would thus draw the southern colonies into the conflict.