[Pharmboy]

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list

[Pharmboy]

There were only 3,300 Jews in the colonies in 1775 (out of about 4 million souls, 500,000 were African- American slaves); Philadelphia, New York, Charleston and Lancaster, PA were where the most Jews lived (Lancaster was, at that time, the gateway to the west and many merchant/outfitters gathered there).

Almost all the Jews were Patriots with very few Tories. One-hundred and twenty-five American Jews were under arms in the Continental Army. This comes from Benson Bobrick's excellent RevWar history Angel in the Whirlwind.

And while I'm at it, another interesting point he brings out in his book is the fact that more blacks than whites died during the war. Why? When the Brits promised freedom to the slaves when war broke out, many fled the plantations and were then placed in camps (the Brits had no real plans for them). Typhus and smallpox then wiped out tens of thousands...

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Salomon worked with Robert Morris. I'm in the middle of this now.

This from Wiki:

In August of 1781, the Continental Army had trapped Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis in the little Virginia coastal town of Yorktown. George Washington and the main army and the Count de Rochambeau with his French army decided to march from the Hudson Highlands to Yorktown and deliver the final blow. But Washington's war chest was completely empty, as was that of Congress. Washington determined that he needed at least $20,000 to finance the campaign. When Morris told him there were no funds and no credit available, Washington gave him a simple but eloquent order: "Send for Haym Salomon". Haym again came through, and the $20,000 was raised. Washington conducted the Yorktown campaign, which proved to be the final battle of the Revolution, thanks to Haym Salomon.

It appears that without Salomon, the miracle of Yorktown may not have happened.

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Did he die without children? I see no one has claimed him as a patriot ancestor in the DAR database.

[ZULU]

Thanks Pharmboy.

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