The Three Princes of Serendip as in the quality of the observation." Poe's M. Dupin stories mark the start of the modern detective fiction genre. Émile Gaboriau, and Arthur Conan Doyle were perhaps also influenced by Zadig. The Three Princes of Serendip The Three Princes of Serendip is the English version of the story "Peregrinaggio di tre giovani figliuoli del re di Serendippo" published by Michele Tramezzino in Venice in 1557. Tramezzino claimed to have heard the story from one , who had translated the Persian fairy tale into Italian, adapting Book One of Amir Khusrau's "Hasht-Bihisht" of 1302. The story first came to English
Walpole, Massachusetts in the Revolution works on Dorchester Heights, which forced Gen. Howe to evacuate Boston on March 17. The men were on duty as late as the following June, and were stationed in Hull during the summer and fall. On April 5, 1776, Gen. Washington passed through Walpole on his way to New York. The story goes that Washington passed through present-day Lincoln Road, stopped at the Smith household where Zilpha Smith gave Washington a drink of water from a gourd. On May 10, 1776, Walpole voted unanimously "that, if the Honble Continental Congress should declare these Colonies Independant of ye Kingdom of Great