This Week in History:
On September 15, 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara, (Sekigahara Kassen Byōbu『関ヶ原合戦屏風』) marked the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.
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September 15, 1774: Cossack pretender to the Russian throne Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev was captured.
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On September 16, 1620 the Mayflower departed Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World.
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September 17,1776: The fortress Presidio of San Francisco was founded in New Spain to gain a foothold in Alta California and secure the San Francisco Bay for Spain.
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And on September 18, 1851, the first edition of The New York Times was published for two cents a copy.
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Our special sale on all of our pre-1899 antique Swiss rifles at Elk Creek Company will end on September 22nd. get your order in soon. BTW, I have a small supply of scarce factory boxes of .41 Swiss Rimfire cartridges exclusively available for the buyers of any of our Swiss Vetterli rifles. E-mail me for details. – JWR
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