June 3 » Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
August 24 » American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
September 6 » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
September 28 » American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
October 19 » American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
Day of death January 26, 1782
The temperature on January 26, 1782 was about 5.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
April 19 » John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
June 10 » King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.
July 1 » Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
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