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The Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio was not exactly the land of milk and honey, according to the award-winning exhibit at the Litchfield History Museum.

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While the French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse blocked the Chesapeake and held the British fleet at bay, American and French troops trapped British forces at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.

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Consider the map on this page. You've seen it many times: the boundaries of the seven municipal districts of New Orleans, ...