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The Vermont Republic officially known at the time as the State of Vermont, was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. [1] The state was founded in January 1777, when delegates from 28 towns met and declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of Quebec ...
War of 1812. Although Vermont was not the scene of any major battles during the War of 1812, its position as a border state with British North America, and the demands by the federal government for the recruitment of troops dictated the state's involvement in the war.
Dec 1, 2019 · The Vermont Republic arose from confused beginnings. King George III, the current monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain, had issued land grants to nobles residing in the American colonies after defeating France in the Seven Years’ War (which actually lasted 9 years!)
- The Vermont Republic: 1777-1791
- The State of Muskogee: 1799-1803
- The Republic of West Florida: 1810
- The Republic of Fredonia: 1826-1827
- The Indian Stream Republic: 1832-1835
- The California Republic: 1846
Before it became a U.S. state, Vermont spent 14 years as a de facto independent republic. The breakaway had its roots in a dispute with the neighboring state of New York, which claimed Vermont’s land as its own. By the 1770s, Vermont-based militias such as Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys had resorted to attacking government officials and rent col...
Few figures from early American history had a more colorful resume than William Augustus Bowles. The swashbuckling Marylander served in a British loyalist unit during the American Revolution, but left the army in 1779 and married into a tribe of Creek Indians in Spanish Florida. After becoming a Creek chief, Bowles hatched a scheme to unite the Ind...
In the early 1800s, the United States and Spain were embroiled in a dispute over “West Florida,” a small slice of the Gulf Coast that encompassed parts of what are now Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Spain claimed the land as its own, while the United States argued it had bought it from the French as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The...
Nearly a decade before there was a Republic of Texas, there was the shorter-lived—and much less successful—Republic of Fredonia. The ill-fated state dates to the mid-1820s, when an American land speculator named Haden Edwards secured a grant from the Mexican government to settle 800 pioneer families around Nacogdoches, Texas. A series of local feud...
In 1832, the residents of the tiny New England community of Indian Stream declared independence—from whom, they weren’t entirely sure. Ever since the end of the American Revolution, Indian Stream had been at the center of a border dispute between the United States and British-controlled Canada. Both sides claimed that the prescribed borderline plac...
One of history’s shortest revolutions began on June 14, 1846, when a small outfit of American settlers staged an uprising against the authorities of Mexican-controlled California. After seizing the town of Sonoma and arresting its Mexican commandant, the rebels raised a new flag—a picture of a grizzly bear and a lone red star—and declared the forma...
May 7, 2013 · With the Revolutionary War drawing to a close, Vermont sought to resolve its land claims with its neighbours. Eventually, the republic agreed to pay New York $30,000 in silver for land and by 1790, Vermont ceased to be an independent republic and formally joined the United States.
Feb 4, 2023 · The American Revolution ended in 1783. But although calm and economic prosperity came to Vermont, the republic was technically still in a state of rebellion against New York and the United States. So, how did Vermont manage to remain independent, and why did it choose this path?
4 days ago · Vermont became the site of the northernmost land action of the war when, in 1864, a band of Confederate soldiers crossed from Canada to raid St. Albans. Following the war, dairying emerged as the primary agricultural activity.
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