On Dec. 19, 1776, Thomas Paine published the first in a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled “The American Crisis.” Paine’s popular pamphlet, “Common Sense,” released in January of ’76, called for the separation from Britain accomplished that July through the Declaration of Independence.
On Dec. 19, 1777, George Washington’s Continental Army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
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