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(21,691 posts)Battle of the Boyne - awarded a silver sword by the king for his service
US Revolution - one direct ancestor carried the above-mentioned sword into battle; another led the New Jersey Minutemen (town in NJ named for my family made briefly famous during the anthrax letters)
US Civil War - a close branch of the family raised General Sherman; the son of that family issued Order No. 11. Direct ancestors built the first buildings in the town where that order was issued (ask 5 historians and you'll get 15 answers as to who built what when there, though - but all agree they were among the first
Jamestown settlement - a Native American adopted/fostered/enslaved by one of my ancestors warned the settlement about an impending attack (DNA proved). Ancestor is believed by some to be First Settlement, but no records exist before 1605.