One of AB
's great-great-grandmothers, Abigail Hinman
, had fired a gun out of a window at the traitor Benedict Arnold
at the time of the American War of Independence: an event commemorated in a...
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11 September 1775: Colonel Benedict Arnold marched from Cambridge,...
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11 September 1775
Colonel Benedict Arnold
marched from Cambridge, Massachusetts, with 1,150 men, heading for Quebec; only 600 reached the St Lawrence River two months later.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
