Jeffrey A. Denman

Howe was moving away with the French in hot pursuit. Both admirals were jockeying for position, trying to get windward of the other in order to initiate battle. Howe was increasing his distance from the French, when crews began to notice a change in the weather. The seas were now choppier, and in the distance the skies began to darken. Winds began to whip. As each side began to form for battle, a storm was upon them. For two days, heavy wind and rain pounded the fleets, and t

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Fleeing political upheavals in England for settlement in the New World, Quakers rose to unprecedented economic and political power in the Pennsylvania colony. However, the failure of the Quaker-dominated government to provide for defense in the wars from the 1730s into the 1760s was the beginning of their downfall. By the Revolution, their fortunes had waned, and they were brutally suppressed by their political foes. Seventeen Quakers and three others were exiled to Virginia