19 JUNE 1775, BOSTON: Redcoat sentries facing the Continental lines are ordered “not wantonly to throw away their Ammunition, nor to Fire unless Fired at,” and that anyone coming in to surrender from the enemy should have their surrender accepted “unanoy’d.”

19 JUNE 1775, PHILADELPHIA: The Continental Congress commissions two more major generals: Philip Schuyler of New York and Israel Putnam of Connecticut, bringing the number to four.