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Show 2C3 YBuPS By CONGRESSMAN ALLAN T. HOWE On Aug. 28, 1775, 1,000 American troops began an advance ad-vance on Canada. The troops, under the cpmmand of General Schuyler, began their march from Ticonderoga. THE TOWN of Stonington, Conn, was bombarded by the HMS Rose, under the command com-mand of Captain Wallace, on Aug. 30, 1775. Captain Wallace ordered the bombardment of the coastal town after a foraging forag-ing expedition he had sent out from his ship was repulsed by the people of Stonington. Some casualties were suf-fered suf-fered by the townspeople, and several houses were shattered, shat-tered, but, since only round shot was used in the attack, no houses were burned. ON SEPT. 1, 1775, King George III refused the Continental Con-tinental Congress's Olive Branch Petition. In fact, the King even refused to see the messenger who had carried the petition from the colonies to England. The Olive Branch Petition, which Congress passed on July 8, 1775, asked King George to intercede with Parliament on behalf of the colonists. A LOYALIST, Richard Penn. was the man sent to England with the document. But King George would have nothing to do with a petition from his American "subjects," "sub-jects," whom he had declared just a week before to be in open rebellion. One of the major proDiems faced by the Americans in their battle against the British was the fact that England faced no opposition at sea, and was therefore free to ship supplies to its forces in the colonies. SOMETHING, obviously, had to be done about that situation, si-tuation, and on Sept. 2, 1775, General Washington commissioned commis-sioned a naval force to interdict inter-dict British supply vessels sailing toward Boston. Colonel John Glover of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts converted merchant vessels into armed ships to execute the operation. The first ship of "Washington's "Washing-ton's Navy" was the schooner Hannah. |