Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stories were still fresh when he was growing up. His grandfather had come when the Indians had fled and the towns were rising, a Canadian immigrant in the land ocean. He rode the rails as far as he could, climbed off and asked about the opportunities for a cobbler. Somebody said there was a new town off about 20 miles, called Greenfield, Iowa. No train there. No stage. He walked, liked the place, sent for his family of six back in Ontario. My father's father, being the eldest son, shepherded them all safely to their new home...
England and her colonies (now to be known as states) have come to a parting, but not everything need end in bloodshed and hatred. That was well demonstrated by Maryland's Governor Robert Eden, who stayed at ins post long after ins fellow Governors had fled. For ins safety, he relied primarily on the affection he had earned during ins seven years in office. He had traveled widely throughout Maryland, entertained handsomely,* organized the building of a theatre, and consistently tried to reconcile London and the Colonies. Tins enraged General Charles Lee, Continental commander for the southern region...
...Congress had speedily reinforced the fewer than 1,000 able-bodied American troops besieging Quebec, a notable military victory might still have been won. But the British had already sent their own reinforcements before 6,000 Continental regulars and militia finally arrived in Canada in May. The besiegers fled southward. Even after they had united with the fresh troops, a large contingent of the American forces was routed midway between Quebec and Montreal. After struggling to He aux Noix below St. John's, they began dying by the hundreds from smallpox and dysentery. Of that fine force, fewer than...
...gunpowder to Philadelphia when she was trapped by British warships. Under cover of fog, her crew beached her off Cape May, New Jersey, and unloaded 265 barrels of powder-leaving behind just enough for a large explosion. They then lit a long fuse to a keg of powder and fled. Five of the British boats emerged from the fog and sent boarding parties onto the Nancy. Just as they took possession, with three cheers, the cached gunpowder went off. Says one witness: "Eleven dead bodies have since come on shore with two gold-laced hats and a leg with...
...perhaps they would not have led ... to the idea of attempting anything in that way." He got some instruction from his neighbor, the established portraitist John Hessilius, and advertised as a sign painter. In 1765, pressed by his Tory creditors for both his debts and his patriotic views, Peale fled Maryland with the sheriff literally at his door. He took advantage of his exile to study briefly in Boston with Copley himself. On his return, the Annapolis gentry were so impressed with his new skills that they forgave him his debts and even raised a fund so that he could...