On August twenty third, 1305, in London, William Wallace (pictured) was executed for treason, condemned for main Scottish resistance forces throughout the first years of the lengthy and in the end profitable battle to free Scotland from English rule.
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August twenty third is the anniversary of the declaration of the unbiased state of “Franklin” in Japanese Tennessee by the settlers there in 1784. Sadly, the Continental Congress rejected it, so the state of Franklin by no means turned a actuality.
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On this present day in 1833, Britain abolished slavery in its colonies and 700,000 slaves had been freed.