Portal:New England

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Location of New England (in red) in the United States

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 is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city, as well as 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 Puritan Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful English settlement in America, following the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia founded in 1607. Ten years later, more 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 in America. (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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Davis in the 1940s

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was a Massachusetts-born actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. (Full article...)

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Project for the attack of Ticonderoga.

Battle of Ticonderoga (1759)

Credit: William Brasier (1759)

British Army plans for the attack on Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War

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The following are images from various New England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 2Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 3Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 4Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 5Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 68. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 7An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 8First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 9Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 10The 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 11A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 12The 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 133. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 14A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 15Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 16A 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 17Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 18Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 19Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 201. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 2110. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 22A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 23The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 24The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 25Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 26New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 27An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 28Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 29World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 30Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 314. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 32Boston'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 33Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 34The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 35A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 36Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 372. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 38A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 39Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 407. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 41Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 42Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 43Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 44Largest 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 455. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 46Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 47New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 489. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 49Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 506. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 51The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 52A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 53New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 54Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 55A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)

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... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... 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 Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... 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 Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that Bernie Sanders was the first socialist mayor in New England since Jasper McLevy?

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Flag of Maine

Maine
Incorporated 1820
Co-ordinates 45.5°N 69°W

Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, its heavily forested interior and picturesque waterways—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.

As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements survived. Patriot and British forces contended for Maine's territory during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when it voted to secede from Massachusetts. On March 15, 1820, it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise. Maine is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the 50 United States. (Full article...)

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