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Monthly Archives: November 2023
George Washington and George III: Mindsets
The General and the King each had definite ideas, goals and responsibilities. Earlier Georges George I became King of England following the death of the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne in 1714. With no direct line of succession, the Hanoverian … Continue reading
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JQA: The First Trip to Russia
John Quincy Adams was fourteen years old and incredibly bright. First…Naming Rights It has been fashionable lately to name one’s offspring as if it came out of a Scrabble box. But for centuries many people considered it a time-honored tradition … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Charles Adams, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, Francis Dana, George Washington Adams, history, John Adams, John Adams II, John Adams in Holland, John Q. Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams in 1778, Linguistic skills of John Quincy Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, Presidential history, US history
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Abigail Adams: The Shining Moment
AA: Revolutionary Patriot With her husband some 400 miles away in Philadelphia trying to create an independent nation from 13 disassociated colonies with all their inherent problems, needs, quibbles, and disparate personalities (including his own), Abigail Adams voraciously consumed the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams opinion about slavery, Abigail Adams opinions about education, Abigail and John Adams, Abigail Smith Adams, Alexander Pope, American history, “Lysistrata”, ”Remember the Ladies”, British Author Daniel Defoe, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, Greek dramatist Aristophanes, history, John Adams, John Adams and the Continental Congress, Mercy Otis Warren, Mercy Warren, Presidential history, US history, White House history
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The Miracle of Dorchester Heights 1775-6
It was pivotal. It was bold. It was a colonial victory. It was never a battle. Boston, Massachusetts There is little doubt that Boston was the cradle of the American Revolution. In the 1760s, when Great Britain began imposing various … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, American history, British General William Howe, Dorchester Heights, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, Fort Ticonderoga, General George Washington, George Washington, Henry Knox, history, King George III, Presidential history, The American Revolution, The American war of Independence, The Battle of Bunker Hill, the battles of Lexington and Concord, The Boston Tea Party, the cannons at Fort Ticonderoga, The FIrst Continental Congress, The Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress, The siege of Boston
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