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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England, Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island.

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies. (Full article...)

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Gloria near peak intensity on September 24 1985

Hurricane Gloria was a powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season and prowled the Atlantic Ocean from September 16 to September 28. Gloria reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale near the Bahamas, but weakened significantly by the time it made landfall on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Gloria closely followed the Mid-Atlantic coastline and made a second landfall on Long Island, and, after crossing the Long Island Sound, it made a third landfall in Connecticut.

Overall, the storm caused extensive damage along the East Coast of the United States, amounting to $900 million ($2.55 billion in today's terms^[1]), and was responsible for eight fatalities. The storm was the first significant system to strike the northeastern United States since Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and the first major storm to affect New York and Long Island directly since Hurricane Donna in 1960. (Full article...)

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This portrait, first published in 1885, was alleged to be a 1625 likeness of Standish, although its authenticity has never been proven

Myles Standish was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony. One of the Mayflower passengers, Standish played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony from its inception. On February 17, 1621, the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life. Standish served as an agent of Plymouth Colony in England, as assistant governor, and as treasurer of Plymouth Colony. He was also one of the first settlers and founders of the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts. (Full article...)

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Boston campaign

Credit: Sir Thomas Hyde Page (1777)

British map of intrenchments during the Boston campaign of the American Revolutionary War

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Image 1New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 2The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 3Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 4A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 5A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 6Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 7Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 8Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 9Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 10Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 11World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 12Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 13Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 14The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 15The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 16The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 17Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 188. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 19First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 20A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 21Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 221. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 23Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 24The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 25New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 26A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 27The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 28A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 29New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 30An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 31The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 32An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 33A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 34Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 354. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 36Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 37Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 383. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 39A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 409. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 417. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 42Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 4310. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 44Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 455. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 466. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 472. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 48A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 49Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 50Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 51Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 52Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 53Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 54Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 55Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)

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... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?

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Flag of Connecticut

Connecticut
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.6°N 72.7°W

Connecticut is the 3rd least extensive, the 29th most populous, and 4th most densely populated of the 50 United States. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.

The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. (Full article...)