{"id":63,"date":"2026-06-26T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/?p=63"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:47:06","slug":"an-overlooked-chapter-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/news\/an-overlooked-chapter-in-u-s-history\/","title":{"rendered":"An Overlooked Chapter In U.S. History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 17, 1776, General George Washington secured the first victory in the American Revolution. By bringing 59 cannons up a South Boston hill and pointing them towards British troops, he began a 12-day standoff, ending with a retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A monument, standing 115-feet-tall in Thomas Park, commemorates that moment, known as Evacuation Day, which also falls on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"module\" type=\"text\/javascript\"  charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/static\/embed\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n            <a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/VoiD2gpBJSyQu\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/VoiD2gpBJSyQu\/resources?asset_id=rendition&#038;buster=1782492293929\" alt=\"An Overlooked Chapter in US History (Shianne Charette)\" style=\"width:100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 17, 1776, General George Washington secured the first victory in the American Revolution. By bringing 59 cannons up a South Boston hill and pointing them towards British troops,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/eagle-eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}