July 11,1873 Cypress Hills, Alberta - American whisky traders massacre group of Assiniboines; Cypress Hills Massacre forces the Government to send police to the Canadian West. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 11,1814 Eastport Maine - John Sherbrooke 1764-1830 captures Eastport, Maine, with a force from Halifax; later Castine and Machias. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 11,1776 Portsmouth England - Captain James Cook sets sail on his third and last voyage with the HMS. Resolution and HMS Discovery, to seek a North-West Passage round the north coast of America from the Pacific; makes first for Tasmania, then New Zealand and Tahiti, then turns north, arriving along the Oregon Coast by March 1778; on March 29, 1778, they reach Nootka Sound (named King George's Sound by Cook) and drop anchor; they stay for a month, repairing the ships and trading with the local Nootka people, then go north on April 26, 1778; they fail to find a passage; nine months later Cook is killed on a Hawaiian beach. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- July 11,1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Fire almost completely destroys newly-established community of Halifax. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- July 11,1804 - Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton to death in their famous duel. Samuel Broadhurst, a relative of Burr’s, had tried to negotiate a settlement between the two, but Burr offered the challenge and the duel ensued. Burr won by drawing first blood with his swift sword, a gun, in this case. (Kids: please don’t try this at home. Thank you...) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------