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1742 A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony's British defenders. The battle decides the fate of a colony.

1777 American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.

1791 Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church.

1795 Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.

1798 Napoleon Bonaparte's army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria.

1807 Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte.

1814 Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet.

1815 After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris.

1853 Japan opens its ports to trade with the West after 250 years of isolation.

1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis.



JOTD: One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift...

The next year, I didn't buy her a gift.
When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"