Carolina to serve with the Continental Army in the American
Revolutionary War. Initially a major in the 7th North Carolina Regiment,
Hogun advanced quickly in rank to command the unit in the battles of
Brandywine and Germantown in 1777. After the Continental Congress
promoted him to brigadier general, he commanded North Carolina's line
brigade during the Siege of Charleston in the spring of 1780, which
ended in the surrender of all but one of his regiments of regular
infantry. He was the highest-ranking officer from North Carolina to be
captured and imprisoned after the surrender of Charleston. Despite being
offered the opportunity to leave internment under a parole that was
generally extended to other captured Continental officers, he remained
in a British prisoner-of-war camp, in part to hinder British efforts to
enlist captured Continental soldiers to serve in the British West
Indies. Hogan and the other officers in the camp at Haddrel's Point, a
peninsula in Charleston's harbor, were subjected to harsh treatment, and
he soon became ill and died in prison.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogun>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1698:
Most of London's Palace of Whitehall, the main residence of the
English monarchs dating from 1530, was destroyed by fire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Whitehall>
1853:
After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the
American South, Solomon Northup regained his freedom; his memoir Twelve
Years a Slave later became a national bestseller.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Northup>
1951:
Korean War: Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Seoul>
1970:
A magnitude 7.5 Msd earthquake struck Tonghai County, China,
killing at least 15,000 people and spurring the creation of the nation's
largest earthquake monitoring system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Tonghai_earthquake>
2010:
The Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the world's tallest structure,
officially opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
long pig:
Human flesh used by cannibals of the Pacific as meat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long_pig>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If your language lacks poetry and paradox, it's unequal to the
task of accounting for actuality. Otherwise anything radically new is
literally unspeakable.
--Bob Black
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Black>
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