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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England, Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island.

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies. (Full article...)

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Arnold, leader of the campaign

In September 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the gates of Quebec City. Part of a two-pronged invasion of the British Province of Quebec, his expedition passed through the wilderness of what is now Maine.

Unanticipated problems beset the expedition as soon as it left the last significant colonial outposts in Maine. The portages up the Kennebec River proved grueling, and the boats frequently leaked, ruining gunpowder and spoiling food supplies. Many of the troops lacked experience handling boats in white water, which led to the destruction of more boats and supplies in the descent to the Saint Lawrence River via the fast-flowing Chaudière.

By the time Arnold reached the French settlements above the Saint Lawrence River in November, his force was reduced to 600 starving men. Arnold's troops crossed the Saint Lawrence on November 13 and 14 and attempted to put Quebec City under siege. Failing in this, they withdrew to Point-aux-Trembles until Richard Montgomery arrived to lead an unsuccessful attack on the city. Arnold was rewarded for his effort in leading the expedition with a promotion to brigadier general. (Full article...)

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Portrait of Willis, c. 1855

Nathaniel Parker Willis was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day.

Born in Portland, Maine, Willis came from a family of publishers. Willis developed an interest in literature while attending Yale College and began publishing poetry. After graduation, he worked as an overseas correspondent for the New York Mirror. He eventually moved to New York and began to build his literary reputation. In 1846, he started his own publication, the Home Journal, which was eventually renamed Town & Country. Shortly after, Willis moved to a home on the Hudson River where he lived a semi-retired life until his death in 1867. (Full article...)

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Boston Massacre

Credit: Paul Revere (1770)

Paul Revere's 1770 engraving, depicting the Boston Massacre

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Image 1Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 23. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 3Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 4Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 5A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 62. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 710. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 8Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 9Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 10Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 11The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 12Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 13Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 14A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 15Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 16Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 179. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 18A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 19World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 20The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 21New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 22The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 23A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 24Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 25A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 266. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 27Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 28Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 295. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 30The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 31Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 32Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 337. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 34A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 354. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 36The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 37Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 38First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 39Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 40Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 41An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 42The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 43New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 44Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 45The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 461. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 47A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 48Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 49New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 50Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 51A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 52Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 53Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 54An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 558. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)

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... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?

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Flag of New Hampshire

New Hampshire
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 44°N 71.5°W

New Hampshire, named after the southern English county of Hampshire, is the 5th least extensive and the 9th least populous of the 50 U.S. states.

It became the first post-colonial sovereign nation in the Americas when it broke off from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.

It is known internationally for the New Hampshire primary, the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. It has no general sales tax, nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends) taxed at either the state or local level. (Full article...)

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