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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
– American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
– The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
– New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
– American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford’s continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
– Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point.
– John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
– Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
– American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henry Baldwin, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1844)
– Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (d. 1847)
– Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860)
– William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
– Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
– François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
– Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
– Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
– John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
– Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)