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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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An 1875 print by John Steeple Davis depicting Ethan Allen demanding the fort's surrender

The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame and looted a small British garrison. Cannons and other armaments from the fort were transported to Boston and used to fortify Dorchester Heights and break the stalemate at the Siege of Boston. After seizing Ticonderoga, a small detachment captured the nearby Fort Crown Point on May 11. On May 18, Arnold and 50 men boldly raided Fort Saint-Jean on the Richelieu River in southern Quebec, seizing military supplies, cannons, and the largest military vessel on Lake Champlain. Although the scope of this military action was relatively minor, it had significant strategic importance. It impeded communication between northern and southern units of the British Army, and gave the nascent Continental Army a staging ground for the invasion of Quebec later in 1775. It also involved two larger-than-life personalities in Allen and Arnold, each of whom sought to gain as much credit and honor as possible for these events. (Full article...)

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Bannister, c. 1880

Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon school. Born in colonial New Brunswick, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife Christiana Carteaux, he was a prominent member of African-American cultural and political communities, such as the Boston abolition movement. Bannister received national recognition after he won a first prize in painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He was also a founding member of the Providence Art Club and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Bannister's style and predominantly pastoral subject matter reflected his admiration for the French artist Jean-François Millet and the French Barbizon school. A lifelong sailor, he also looked to the Rhode Island seaside for inspiration. Bannister continually experimented, and his artwork displays his Idealist philosophy and his control of color and atmosphere. He began his professional practice as a photographer and portraitist before developing his better-known landscape style. (Full article...) (Full article...)

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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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Image 1The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 2New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 3Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 4Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 5Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 6New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 78. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 85. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 91. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 10The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 11Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 12A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 134. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 14Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 153. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 1610. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 17Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 18Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 196. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 20A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 21Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 22Boston'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 23A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 24First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 25Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 26The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 27The 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 28An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 29New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 30Largest 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 31The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 32Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 33A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 34A 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 35A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 36The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 37The 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 38Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 39Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 40World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 41Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 42Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 43Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 442. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 45An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 46A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 47Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 48Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 499. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 50Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 517. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 52A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 53Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 54Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 55Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)

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... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... 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 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 the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... 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?

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... that American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?

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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...)