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Show Great Events in American History That Have Taken Place in November November In America. Erroneously Erroneous-ly supposed to be month of first Thanksgiving after harvesting firsi crop In Plymouth colony. It was a month earlier that the Pilgrims, as M.r. Clioate remarked, "first fell upon their knees and then upon the aborigines." Or maybe It wasn't Choate. Connecticut settled, 1GS. Pirate "l'.Iackbeard" captured, 1718. Brit ish took Detroit, 1TG0. Stamp act became law, 17C5, and Amcrlonn devolution became Inevitable. Americans Amer-icans captured Montreal, 1775. Continental Con-tinental army disbanded. 178,'! Con Kress met In new capitol building. 1SO0. Pike's peak discovered, ISOfi. and It was 12.'i years before a man rolled a peanut up with Ills nose. Battle of Tippecanoe. 1811. .lefferson Davis elected President s of Confederacy, 1SG1. In the same year United Slates warship San Ja-I Ja-I cinto held up British merchantman I j ""rent and took off Mason and Sll- dell. Confederate envoys. In those days Britain was strong for freedom free-dom of the seas, made protest atid the two envoys were delivered to England, but never olllcially received re-ceived as such. Catling gun Invented, In-vented, 18C2. Great (ire of Boston, 1872. Chinese exclusion act, 1S02. World war armistice, IMS. San Francisco Chronicle. |