Bill Richmond
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Bill Richmond was a British boxer, born into slavery in Richmondtown, New York. Although born in Colonial America, he lived for the majority of his life in England, where all his boxing contests took
1810 depiction of Richmond
Tom Molineaux, trainee of Bill Richmond
John Neal, one of Richmond's late-life boxing academy pupils
A plaque honouring Richmond on the Tom Cribb pub in Westminster
Thirteen Colonies
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The Thirteen Colonies were the British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America which broke away from the British Crown in the American Revolutionary War, and joined to form the United States o
The Thirteen Colonies of British America: (dark red): New England Colonies (red-brown): Middle Colonies (brown): Southern Colonies
Fort George and New York, c. 1731
Join, or Die by Benjamin Franklin was recycled to encourage the former colonies to unite against British rule.
Minutemen during the Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 1775