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October 1775 in History

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Oct 8 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from the Continental Army

Nathanael Greene — US General Nathanael Greene

Oct 13 First US Navy forms when Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet [1]
Oct 16 Portland, Maine burned by British

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Oct 18 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery

Phillis Wheatley — Poet Phillis Wheatley

Oct 27 US Navy forms as the Continental Navy

Birthdays in History

Oct 12 Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader, born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1863)

Deaths in History

Oct 2 Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
Oct 18 Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
Oct 21 Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)

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