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Joshua Huddy, George Washington, and the Asgill Affair

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A Continental Army hero and privateer with a petty criminal past, Joshua Huddy’s lynching – some say by Colonel Tye- precipitated the Asgill Affair, arguably the first ‘international incident’ in colonial America.

George Washington, Marie Antoinette, and King Louis XVI all got involved.

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Logging the Forgotten Since 1583?

Humphrey Gilbert and a crew of criminals and pirates reached Newfoundland in 1583.

Gilbert waved his patent, dug a divot of turf, and claimed the land for England...never mind that the French and Portuguese, to say nothing of the Beothuk, were already there,

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Joshua Huddy, George Washington, and the Asgill Affair

Logging the Forgotten Since 1583?

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