Saturday, March 06, 2010

This Day in History: March 6

It is said by Mr. King, who is just from Petersburg, that a gentleman was at that place who informed that sundry persons had arrived at Edenton from Providence Island, who affirmed that they saw in Providence a London paper giving an account that Bourgoyne's disaster had produced the most violent fermentation in England; that the Parliament had refused to grant the supplies for carrying on the war, and that a motion for acknowledging our independence was overruled by a small majority only. [More]

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