On April 12th in U S Political History
On April 12th in 1770 British Parliament repealed the 1767 Townsend Acts that put duties on certain products imported to the US.
On April 12th in 1776 North Carolina's Fourth Provincial Congress adopted the Halifax Resolves, which authorized the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress to support independence from Britain.
On April 12th in 1782 The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Les Saintes in the West Indies off Dominica. A British fleet beat the French.
On April 12th in 1787 Philadelphia's Free African Society formed.
On April 12th in 1811 The first U.S. colonists on Pacific coast arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington.
On April 12th in 1844 Texas became a US territory.
On April 12th in 1861 The Confederates sent a final ultimatum for the surrender of Fort Sumter at 12:45 a.m. Upon receiving Anderson's refusal, Gen'l. Beauregard's artillery began to bombard Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. For 34 hours, the Confederates and Federals traded fire before Anderson surrendered on April 13. The Civil War had begun.
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