Committee of Correspondence

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On November 2, 1772, Samuel Adams (pictured) and Joseph Warren formed the first Committee of Correspondence.

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On the same day in 1805, United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon, an important event in the First Barbary War.

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