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July: Pausing to Remember History

June 30, 2015 by Derinda Babcock

What images do you see when someone says July 4th? Do you think of picnics, fireworks, wars, old documents, or something else? As a reader and writer of historical fiction, here is what comes to my mind. July 3, 1775 George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. The first battles of the American Revolution occurred in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. (Aril 19, 1775). People living in the Thirteen Colonies rebelled against the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. July 4, 1776 The Declaration of Independence is …

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