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In 1662, Charles II, the restored monarch of Great Britain, issued a charter for the founding of Connecticut. The colony’s borders were delineated as…
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When the Continental Congress first commissioned the use of private ships and boats of war in April 1776, they specified that each vessel’s commander…
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“I never Emplored my pen in writing more Disagreeable News than at this time,” wrote Samuel Smedley, captain of the Connecticut state ship Defence,…