| 词条 | Third Virginia Convention |
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The Third Virginia Convention was a meeting of the Patriot legislature of Virginia held in Richmond from July 17 to August 26, 1775. BackgroundThis Convention followed the Second Virginia Convention, which opened on March 20, 1775. After the dismissal of the second Convention, the battles of Lexington and Concord, the first of the American Revolutionary War, took place on April 19 in Massachusetts. In June, Virginia governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore called the House of Burgesses to Richmond for the last time, to consider the Conciliatory Resolution. The Conciliatory Resolution called on the Thirteen Colonies to lay down their arms and promised that any colony to raise taxes for the common defense and for its own civil government would be relieved of additional taxation. The Burgesses rejected it. Dunmore fled the capital. MeetingThe Third Convention, like the Second, was held at St. John's Episcopal Church and presided over by Peyton Randolph. The Convention appointed a committee of safety, among whose members were Edmund Pendleton, George Mason, John Page, Richard Bland, Thomas Ludwell Lee, Paul Carrington, Dudley Digges, William Cabell, Carter Braxton, James Mercer, and John Tabb, to govern Virginia in the governor's absence. It also divided Virginia into sixteen military districts and resolved to raise regular regiments, among them the Culpeper Minutemen.[1] [2][3]Notable attendees
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates for the Counties and Corporations in the Colony of Virginia|url=http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php/Proceedings_of_the_Convention_of_Delegates_for_the_Counties_and_Corporations_in_the_Colony_of_Virginia#cite_note-1|work=Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia, William & Mary Law Library|accessdate=9 April 2016}} {{Virginia during the American Revolutionary War}}2. ^{{cite web|title=JULY 1775 -- INTERREGNUM CHAP. III. |url=http://www.virginia1774.org/Committee%20of%20Safety.html|work=Virginia1774.org|accessdate=9 April 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Virginia in the Revolutionary War|url=https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Virginia_in_the_Revolutionary_War|accessdate=9 April 2016}} 2 : 1775 in Virginia|Virginia in the American Revolution |
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