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Simón Bolívar (South American Liberator)
Simón Bolívar (South American Liberator)
Washington Irving (Author)
George Washington resigned as Commander-in-Chief of the army and retired to his Mount Vernon, Virginian home.
General George Washington bade farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. In a choked voice, the departing chief commander of the Continental
The British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War.
George Washington ordered the Continental Army disbanded.
General George Washington issued his “Farewell Address to the Army” near Princeton, New Jersey.
The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the American Revolutionary War.
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier made the first public hot-air balloon flight (unmanned), lasting about 10 minutes and at an altitude of a little over a
Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colony, the United States of America.