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Tango01 | 28 Dec 2018 10:29 p.m. PST |
….the Revolution's Earliest Heroes "DR. JOSEPH WARREN was one of the most active revolutionaries in the decade leading up to America's independence. And although today his name has been overshadowed by the likes of Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton, Warren's incendiary actions predated the founders' involvement in the Whig rebellion by many years. Despite being killed at Bunker Hill, one of the war's first engagements, his martyrdom obscured his other major contributions to the early Revolution. Warren's rise as a social, political and military leader can be traced back to a New England smallpox outbreak in 1764. Upon his graduation from Harvard University, Warren spent a year as a teacher at his alma mater, Roxbury Latin School, before becoming a medical apprentice to Dr. James Lloyd. One of the finest doctors in the colonies, Lloyd became Warren's early mentor. After the aspiring physician administered scores of smallpox inoculations in 1764, he began to grow his own practice and soon became involved with the Sons of Liberty — Boston's radical insurgents who resisted oppressive Crown policies…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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