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War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) September 24, 2019 September 23, 2019

Massachusetts Privateers During the Siege of Boston

by Alexander Cain

Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts Grand Army surrounded Boston and began to lay siege to it. The Massachusetts Committee of…

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Notwithstanding martial law, elsewhere in the colonies the level of evidence needed to convict in a criminal trial or to find liability in a civil context was the same before…
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