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1779
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 | on 2/14/1779 in Kettle Creek . February 14 : American Revolution Colonel Patriot militia force of 340 defeated a 700 strong force of Loyalists at Georgia #history |
 | with on 3/1779 in Galvez . The March of by depicting Spanish Governor Bernardo de leading a force of Spanish regulars Native Americans freed-slaves Acadian militia and American volunteers under Oliver Pollock to siege Fort Bute Baton Rouge |
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in 1779
"[Students of] reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens."
in 1779
"[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty."
in 1779
"Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy auth"