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Quarterman Dates
[1]Tomorrow:
July 14
1698: Darien expedition sails, The first expedition sails from Leith,
anchors at Kirkcaldy.
1781: Col. Lee takes back Dorchester, Source: McIlvaine
1789: Bastille Day, Symbolic end of the French Monarchy and the
beginning of the First Republic. The people of Paris rose up and
marched on the Bastille, a state prison that characterized the
absolutism and arbitrariness of the Kings Regime. The storming of the
Bastille immediately became a symbol of historical dimension; it was
verification that power no longer resided in the King as God's
representative, but in the people.
1881: Billy the Kid d., William H. Bonney Junior, alias "Billy the
Kid," shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New
Mexico.
There's many a man with face fine and fair
Who starts out in life with a chance to be square
But just like poor Billy, he wanders astray
And loses his life in the very same way.
References
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