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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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The 21st Massachusetts was part of Ferrero's Brigade, which captured the infamous Burnside's Bridge during the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862

The 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized in Worcester, Massachusetts and mustered into service on August 23, 1861.

After garrison duty at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, the regiment served with the Coast Division commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside. The Coast Division was deployed in January 1862 for operations on the coast of North Carolina, and participated in the Battle of Roanoke Island and the Battle of New Bern among other engagements. Burnside's division was recalled to Virginia in July 1862. The 21st Massachusetts was then attached to the Army of the Potomac and participated in several of the largest battles of the Civil War, including the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam (capture of Burnside's Bridge pictured), and the Battle of Fredericksburg. The most devastating engagement of the war for the 21st was the Battle of Chantilly, fought on September 1, 1862, during which the unit suffered 35 percent casualties. From March 1863 to January 1864, the 21st served with Burnside in the Department of the Ohio, seeing action in Kentucky and eastern Tennessee. In May 1864, the regiment rejoined the Army of the Potomac, participating in Lt. Gen. Ulysses Grant's Overland Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg. (Full article...)

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Portrait of Chester A. Arthur, 1882

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States. Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing the cause of civil service reform. His advocacy for, and enforcement of, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was the centerpiece of his administration.

Born in Fairfield, Vermont, Arthur grew up in upstate New York and practiced law in New York City. He devoted much of his time to Republican politics and quickly rose in the political machine run by New York Senator Roscoe Conkling. Appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the lucrative and politically powerful post of Collector of the Port of New York in 1871, Arthur was an important supporter of Conkling and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. In 1878 he was replaced by the new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, who was trying to reform the federal patronage system in New York. When James Garfield won the Republican nomination for President in 1880, Arthur was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket by adding an eastern Stalwart to it. (Full article...)

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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston

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Image 12. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 2New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 3A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 4Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 5Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 6The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 7Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 8A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 9Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 101. Boston, Massachusetts (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 12Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 13The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 14Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 15Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 16An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 174. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 18Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 19A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 20The 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 21New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 229. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 23A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 24An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 25The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 26The 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 27The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 28Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 297. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 30Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 31Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 325. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 33Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 34Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 35Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 36Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 37A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 38A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 39Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 403. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 416. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 4210. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 43Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 44Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 45Boston'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 46Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 47Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 48A 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 49A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 50First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 51Largest 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 52The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 53Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 54New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 558. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)

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... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... 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 the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?

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Flag of Rhode Island

Rhode Island
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.7°N 71.5°W

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is the smallest in area, the 8th least populous, but the 2nd most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states.

Rhode Island was the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other colony. The State was also the last of the thirteen original colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.

Rhode Island's official nickname is "The Ocean State," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about fourteen (14) percent of its total area. Its land area is 1,045 square miles (2706 km²), but its total area is significantly larger. (Full article...)

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