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<p> The State of Delaware; - a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a [[Delaware]] Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware. </p> | Blue Hen State <ref name="term_94355" /> | ||
==References == | <p> The State of Delaware; - a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a [[Delaware]] Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's [[Chickens]] came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_94355"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/blue+hen+state Blue Hen State from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_94355"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/blue+hen+state Blue Hen State from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:22, 13 October 2021
Blue Hen State [1]
The State of Delaware; - a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.
