The second Continental Congress involved delegates from the 13 colonies that met during the summer of 1775 shortly after the American Revolutionary war started. The names of all the people who attended are George Read, Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean ,George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, John Morton, Benjamin Rush, George Ross, James Smith, James Wilson, George Taylor, John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Lewis Morris, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, William Floyd, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton, Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, George Wythe, Thomas Nelson, Jr., William Hooper, John Penn, Joseph Hewes, Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Thomas Heyward, Jr., Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkinson, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, From Maryland, Charles Carroll, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, and William Paca.
Defeated on October 4th, 1777. At Germantown, Pennsylvania
October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. October is the eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name (from the Latin "octo" meaning "eight") after July and August, after Julius and Augustus Caesar respectively, when the calendar was originally created by the Romans.
Because he was a general fighting against the British and the colonial people trusted him. They wanted to make him Kingbut he said "no." After his roles in the Constitutional Conventions, he was also a popular choice among US statesmen.
Dr. Jose Rizal began writing the novel El Filibusterismo in October 1887 in Calamba, then completed the book on March 29, 1891. El Fili is a sequel to Rizal's first novel, Noli Me Tangere (literally means =TOUCH ME NOT=)
United States Navy.
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The Navy considers October 13, 1775, as the date of its creation by the Continental Congress.
The Declaration was published in July, but Congress didn't approve it until October.
The congress created the Articles of Association on October 20, 1774, which was a formed a formal and united boycott of British goods. The congress also demanded that the Intolerable Acts should be repealed and if they were not then the Colonies would no longer export their goods to the British.
The second Continental Congress did in October 1776. It was published for the colonies in July but not voted on until October.
The United States Navy recognizes 13 October 1775 as the date of its official establishment, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Navy.
The First Congress started a boycott of British goods and a Second Continental Congress. The Second Continental Congress created the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
They wrote it and signed it. It was announced in July but not in effect until August.
Most delegates to the first Continental Congress were not ready to break away from Britain. The First Continental Congress met briefly in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from September 5 to October 26, 1774.
The Third Continental Congress will be convened this coming November 2009. Delegates are being elected on October 10, 2009. There will be three Delegates from each state plus DC. Go to www.GiveMeLiberty.org for more information.
The officially recognized "birthday" of the US Navy is October 13, 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized the outfitting of a "swift sailing vessel . . . for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warlike stores and other supplies for our enemies, and for such other purposes as the Congress shall direct."