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oRyGr TIL that in the original United States Articles of Confederation, "Canada" (Quebec) had an open invitation to join the United States at their own choosing. Other colonies could only be admitted by a vote of existing states.
J1pRj TIL following Washington's victory at Yorktown, he ordered the re-enslavement of thousands of free former slaves that were attached to the British army
9YoNQ TIL of Capt. Samuel Whittemore, an American farmer who survived being shot in the face by a musket AND repeatedly stabbed by bayonet from British soldiers in 1775 during their march to Lexington & Concord, at the age of 78 . . . and went on to live another 18 years.