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//**David Fanning-(**ctober 25, 1775 -March 14,1825) was a loyalist leader druing Revolutionary War. He was elected to the Legislative Assemblyof New Brunswick from 1791 to 1801 represeting Kings county.Fanning claimed to have been originally a Potriot. However, he said that mistreatment by Patriots caused him to cahnge sides. In latter part of the war, he was commissioned colonel of a regiment of Loyalist militia. After the war Fanning settled in DIGBY, Nova Scotia where he later died in 1825.//

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//**George Washington-**//(Febuary 22, 1732-December 14, 1799) was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of america from 1775 to 1797, leading the American victory over Britian American Revolutionary War as commander in chief of the Continental Army,1775-1783, and presiding over the writing of the Constitution in 1787. Although he expressed opposition to the 1765 Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonies, he did not take a leading role in the growing colonial resistance until protest of the Towmshed Act becamew idespred. In May 1769 Washington introduced a proposal, drafted by his George Mason, calling for Virginia to boycott English goods until the AAct were repealed. Parliament repealed the Townshed Acts in 1770, and, for Washington regarded the passage of the Intolerable Acts in 1774 as"as Invasion of our Rights and Privileges". In July 1774, he chaired the meeting at which the "Fairfax Resolves"were adopted, which called for, among other things, the cinvening of a Continental Congress. In August, Washington attended the First Virginia Convention, where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress.

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