Word: british
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...House of Representatives, having complained of being intimidated by the British troops in Boston, was prorogued to Cambridge by Governor Bernard, May 1769, and took up their quarters in the College halls, without even taking the trouble to ask leave of the Corporation. But the most friendly relations existed between the two, and the House of Representatives dined with the Corporation at the next Commencement...
...British troops were ordered to Cambridge after the surrender of Burgoyne, October, 1777, General Heath asked the Corporation for the use of the College buildings, but as that body was rather unwilling to comply, offering only the use of one house, he sent them a peremptory order to dismiss the students, which was done. The soldiers, however, used only the building first offered, and the students returned after a vacation of two or three months...
...committee on the restoration of the library and apparatus reported that their labors were completed, and that the injuries inflicted by the war had been for the most part repaired. There was no Commencement this year, owing to the war, small-pox, and the number of British in Cambridge. For several years after this the history of Harvard is replete with the chronicles of financial troubles, some few of which were occasioned...
...evening of the 18th of April, eight hundred British troops embarked at the foot of Boston Common. Among their number was Lieutenant Philippe d'Auvergne, Due de Bouillon. They landed at East Cambridge (in order to avoid being intercepted by the 'Port peelers).Two lanterns, hung from the steeple of the North Church, in Boston, telegraphed news of their movement across the river. The sexton who lighted the lanterns was afterwards arrested by the British at a funeral, and, upon examination, condemned to death. A threat of retaliation made by Washington procured his respite, and he was finally exchanged...
...said that one of my numerous grandsires (how they multiply in three generations: it beats Malthus!) fought on the wrong side and had a commission from his majesty King George. But when I see the very identical earthworks thrown up by the Americans, and the spot where the British marched up and the Americans marched down; where the American fort bombarded the British fleet, and the British fleet bombarded the American fort; and where many other memorable things occurred (all of which are related in the guide-book), my feelings make ample amends for the defection of my red-coated...