Good morning.
Sunday in the Whippet City will bring partly sunny skies, a high of thirty eight, and west winds at 10 to 15 MPH.
On this day in 1783, the last British soldiers, defeated and unwelcome, left New York:
On this day in 1783, nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the last British soldiers withdraw from New York City, the last British military position in the United States. After the last Redcoat departed New York, U.S. General George Washington entered the city in triumph to the cheers of New Yorkers. The city had remained in British hands since its capture in September 1776….
New Yorkers shaped the history of two new nations. The British evacuated their New York Loyalists to remaining British territories, mainly in Canada. These families had been dispossessed of their land and belongings by the victorious Patriots because of their continued support of the British king and were able to regain some financial independence through lands granted to them by the British in western Quebec (now Ontario) and Nova Scotia. Their arrival in Canada permanently shifted the demographics of what had been French-speaking New France until 1763 into an English-speaking colony, and later nation, with the exception of a French-speaking and culturally French area in eastern Canada that is now Quebec.
In Wisconsin history on this day, in 1863, Wisconsin soliders helped win a Union victory:
1863 – (Civil War) Battle of Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga, Tennessee
Fourteen Wisconsin units — seven Wisconsin Infantry regiments and seven Wisconsin Light Artillery batteries participated in breaking the siege at Chattanooga. The 15th and 24th Wisconsin Infantry regiments were among the forces that charged up Missionary Ridge, broke through the Confederate ranks, and seized the strategic location on November 25.
Google asks a question about Coleridge: “What appears over the body of each dead sailor and animates the bodies on the mariner’s ship described in Coleridge’s addition to “Lyrical Ballads”?”