1775

Jane Austen (Novelist, Pride and Prejudice)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German philosopher, views on Christianity)

The British repulsed an attack by Continental Army Generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec. Montgomery was killed.

A Continental naval fleet was organized in the rebellious American colonies under the command of Ezek Hopkins.

U.S. forces, under the command of General Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.

The U.S. Navy began as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.

Ethan Allen was captured by the British.

Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”

Benjamin Franklin became Postmaster General.

Horatio Gates issued an order excluding blacks from the Continental Army.

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