Dynamic Directory - February 26, 2025

In this disastrous battle, from the patriots perspective, a tired and outnumbered British force (led by Banastre Tarleton) routed the Americans (led by Abraham Buford) near the border of North and South Carolina.

After Patriots forced General Howe and his fleet out of Boston, the Brits sailed into New York Harbor in June of 1776.

After the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Continental Congress authorized a new form of currency to be used throughout the United Colonies.

Born Hugh Smithson, Lord Percy was the 2nd Duke of Northumberland and a Member of Parliament. His half-brother willed funds to America which the government used to found the Smithsonian.

How did Charles Dickens, who released his famous Christmas story on 13 December 1843, become such a famous writer?

Lt. General Ira C. Eaker, an aviation pioneer with impressive flying credentials, was a supporter of the Tuskegee Airmen and their 99th Pursuit Squadron.

Lt. Gwynne Pierson was one of four Tuskegee Airmen who participated in a major attack on a German vessel during the summer of 1944.

Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.

In the 12th century, the King of England was vexed by Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's famous nineteenth-century thinkers and writers, endured a great deal of sadness in his life.

Anne Hutchinson - and some of her children - died unfortunate deaths of mistaken identity in the summer of 1643.

Heinrich Karl Bukowski - better known as Charles Bukowski (or "Hank," to his friends and family) - was born in Andernach, Germany on the 16th of August, 1920.

When she was just a child, Katharina von Bora was sent to live in a convent (at Brehna, north of Leipzig) after her mother died. She later became the wife of Martin Luther.

On the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther to recant 41 of his 95 Theses and to stop preaching about those items in his sermons. Luther burned the edict, in public.

Johann Tetzel was a German Dominican friar who told people that if they bought indulgences, their sins would be forgiven.