A Happy and Safe Thanksgiving to All.
Happy Evacuation day to you all as well.
:clap: Happy Thanksgiving!
Quote from: SARDOC on November 23, 2011, 04:54:12 PM
Happy Evacuation day to you all as well.
Right Back at Cha!
Evacuation Day isn't until March, so we have a bit to go yet.
Quote from: capmaj on November 23, 2011, 07:03:38 PM
Evacuation Day isn't until March, so we have a bit to go yet.
Explain please?
Quote from: capmaj on November 23, 2011, 07:03:38 PM
Evacuation Day isn't until March, so we have a bit to go yet.
Depends where you're celebrating.
" March 17 is Evacuation Day, a holiday observed in Suffolk County (which includes the city of Boston and also by the public schools in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. The holiday commemorates the evacuation of British forces from the city of Boston following the Siege of Boston, early in the American Revolutionary War. Schools and government offices (including some Massachusetts state government offices located in Suffolk County) are closed. If March 17 falls on a weekend, schools and government offices are closed on the following Monday in observance. It is the same day as Saint Patrick's Day, a coincidence that played a role in the establishment of the holiday."
It's a Massachusetts thing ;)
Quote from: capmaj on November 23, 2011, 08:24:27 PM
" March 17 is Evacuation Day, a holiday observed in Suffolk County (which includes the city of Boston and also by the public schools in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. The holiday commemorates the evacuation of British forces from the city of Boston following the Siege of Boston, early in the American Revolutionary War. Schools and government offices (including some Massachusetts state government offices located in Suffolk County) are closed. If March 17 falls on a weekend, schools and government offices are closed on the following Monday in observance. It is the same day as Saint Patrick's Day, a coincidence that played a role in the establishment of the holiday."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_Day_(New_York) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_Day_(New_York))
QuoteFollowing the American Revolution, Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when the last vestige of British authority in the United States — its troops in New York — departed from Manhattan.[1] The last shot of the American Revolutionary War was reported to be fired on this day, as a British gunner on one of the departing ships fired a cannon at jeering crowds gathered on the shore of Staten Island, at the mouth of New York Harbor (the shot fell well short of the shore).[2]
Makes sense. My state wasn't even a territory during the revolution so it was lost on me.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Ltc. Phil Saleet, CAP
NC Wing Historian
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