Elisha Perkins
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Elisha Perkins was an American physician who created a fraudulent medical device, the Perkins Patent Tractors. Although they were made of steel and brass, Perkins claimed that they were made of unusua
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Metallic Tractors. Caricature of a quack treating a patient with Perkins Patent Tractors by James Gillray, 1801
Modern facsimiles of Perkins tractors
Continental Army
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The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775, by a reso
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…Plainfield, Connecticut, where he later practiced medicine with success. When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Perkins served as a surgeon for the Continental Army during the Battle of Bunker Hill in the Siege of Boston. During the late 18th century, the progression of medicine due to the Enlightenment increased…
George Washington, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775, by the Second Continental Congress
An illustration of the Continental Army's Assistant Quartermaster General John Parke and Ezekiel Cheever, civilian commissary of artillery, giving instructions to a captain of artillery on the docks of New London, Connecticut in 1776
James Monroe, along with George Washington, one of the two future U.S. presidents who served in the Continental Army
A 1778 illustration showing a Stockbridge Mohican Indian patriot soldier with the Stockbridge Militia in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, taken from Hessian officer Johann Von Ewald's war diary