Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, August 21, 1774. Defeat for the serfs.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Sunday, August 21, 1774. Defeat for the serfs.

Johann von Michelsohnen.

The Imperial Russian Army, commanded by the unlikely named Johann von Michelsohnen, an Estonian of very obvious German descent, and serf rebels, led by Yemelyan Pugachev contested at what is now Volograd, with the outnumbered Imperial Russian Army not surprisingly prevailing. Pugachev escaped, for a time, but hsi revolution fell apart thereafter.

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August 17, 1774. Militia Muster.

Labels: 1770s, 1774, Colonial North America, Lord Dunmore's War, National Guard, Native Americans, Tennessee, Tennessee National Guard

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