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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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The 21st Massachusetts was part of Ferrero's Brigade, which captured the infamous Burnside's Bridge during the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862

The 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized in Worcester, Massachusetts and mustered into service on August 23, 1861.

After garrison duty at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, the regiment served with the Coast Division commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside. The Coast Division was deployed in January 1862 for operations on the coast of North Carolina, and participated in the Battle of Roanoke Island and the Battle of New Bern among other engagements. Burnside's division was recalled to Virginia in July 1862. The 21st Massachusetts was then attached to the Army of the Potomac and participated in several of the largest battles of the Civil War, including the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam (capture of Burnside's Bridge pictured), and the Battle of Fredericksburg. The most devastating engagement of the war for the 21st was the Battle of Chantilly, fought on September 1, 1862, during which the unit suffered 35 percent casualties. From March 1863 to January 1864, the 21st served with Burnside in the Department of the Ohio, seeing action in Kentucky and eastern Tennessee. In May 1864, the regiment rejoined the Army of the Potomac, participating in Lt. Gen. Ulysses Grant's Overland Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg. (Full article...)

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Captain Hudner addresses a crowd wearing his Medal of Honor

Thomas Jerome Hudner, Jr. is a retired officer of the United States Navy and a former naval aviator. He rose to the rank of captain, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War.

Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Hudner attended Phillips Academy and the United States Naval Academy. Initially uninterested in aviation, he eventually took up flying and joined Fighter Squadron 32, flying the F4U Corsair at the outbreak of the Korean War. Arriving near Korea in October 1950, he flew support missions from the USS Leyte.

On 4 December 1950, Hudner and Brown were among a group of pilots on patrol near the Chosin Reservoir when Brown's Corsair was struck by ground fire from Chinese troops and crashed. In an attempt to save Brown from his burning aircraft, Hudner intentionally crash-landed his own aircraft on a snowy mountain in freezing temperatures to help Brown. In spite of these efforts, Brown died of his injuries and Hudner was forced to evacuate, having also been injured in the landing. (Full article...)

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Robert F. Kennedy

Credit: Warren K. Leffler (1963)

Massachusetts native and then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd of African Americans and whites through a megaphone outside the Justice Department

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The following are images from various New England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 27. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 35. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 4A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 5Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 6Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 7A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 8The 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 910. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 104. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 11New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 12Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 13Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 14The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 15World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 16Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 171. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 18A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 19The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 20An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 21New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 22Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 23Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 24Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 25New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 266. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 27Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 28The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 29A 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 30A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 31Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 32Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 33Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 34Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 35Largest 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 36A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 37Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 38Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 39The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 40Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 412. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 423. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 43Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 44Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 45Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 46Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 47First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 48A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 498. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 50The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 51The 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 52Boston'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 53Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 54An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 559. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)

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... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... 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 New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... 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 Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?

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... that the racing roller coaster Derby Racer (pictured) killed or critically injured at least five people in its 25 years of operation, leading to a Massachusetts Supreme Court case?
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... that the Bank of New England went bankrupt in 1991, but its liquidation is still in progress?
... that New Hampshire-born Charles Coffin Harris, who served as cabinet minister and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii, also had a business selling fern hair?
... that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts?

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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...)