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Category: This Week in History

  • Blog post image for March 17, 1775: The Cannons of Ft. Ticonderoga Cause the British to Abandon the City of Boston.

    March 17, 1775: The Cannons of Ft. Ticonderoga Cause the British to Abandon the City of Boston.

     Britain is rocked by its losses on April 19, 1775 at Lexington and Concord to the rag tag American minutemen and they retreat to the safety of their fortifications around Boston Harbor. When word of the defeat reaches King George III, he sends three top generals led by Lord William Howe to strike the enemy. […]

  • Blog post image for Congress approves the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago ending Mexican War

    Congress approves the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago ending Mexican War

    Five months after the U.S. army under General Winfield Scott occupies Mexico City, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ending the war is approved by the Senate. The fighting itself has lasted for sixteen months from the opening clash along the disputed Rio Grande border at Matamoros until the final assault on the Chapultepec Castle […]

  • Blog post image for March 5, 1845: Mexican Forces Massacre Defenders At The Alamo

    March 5, 1845: Mexican Forces Massacre Defenders At The Alamo

    In 1836 Mexican President Lopez de Santa Anna decides the time has come to take back territory in the state of Coahuila y Tejas then occupied by Americans who cast themselves as “Texians.” His campaign begins with a brutal massacre of some 285 of their settlers garrisoned at the Alamo Mission in the town of […]

  • Blog post image for February 24, 1803: The Marbury v Madison ruling defines the authority of the Supreme Court.

    February 24, 1803: The Marbury v Madison ruling defines the authority of the Supreme Court.

    Fifteen years after the founding fathers create the judicial branch of the federal government, the nation’s fourth Chief Justice, John Marshall, defines the authority of the Supreme Court over the laws of the land in his Marbury v Madison decision. Until that moment the High Court has floundered under three prior Chiefs, unsure of its […]

  • Blog post image for February 13, 1819: The Tallmadge Amendment rings like “a fire bell in the night” for ex-President Jefferson.

    February 13, 1819: The Tallmadge Amendment rings like “a fire bell in the night” for ex-President Jefferson.

    James Tallmadge, Jr. is a 41 year old graduate of Brown University, a lawyer, ex-soldier in the War of 1812 and serving his one term in Congress when he becomes famous for offering an amendment to a bill to admit Missouri as the 23rd state in the Union. It supports the addition, but only… Provided, […]