By the time summer of 1775 had come, the American Revolutionary War would be in full vigor. The British having overpowering number, and a dominant arsenal were easily defeating the newly formed Continental Army. A freshly appointed General George Washington knew that in order to push back the British he would have to take back one of the strongest positions and a main supply route. How did a newly formed Continental Army that was outnumbered, with limited supplies and weaponry, defeat the most powerful military force in the world at the time? Fort Ticonderoga was once named Fort Carillon.…
Eli was born in the winter which was on December 8, 1765. He spent his youth on a family farm near Westboro, Massachusetts when he was eleven the fighting at nearby Lexington and Concord ignited the Revolutionary war. Eli showed a native skill for mechanical work (he made a playable violin at twelve). Since war came prices for nearly eatery thing shot up, for instance nails. Eli talked to his father into letting him install forge.…
The Battle of Trenton, Princeton, Guilford Courthouse, Cowpens, and Yorktown were all American successes due to the inability of the British Army to supply their army. Cornwallis had stretched his supply lines so thin that anything less than a total victory against Nathanael Greene meant the end of his surge. His surrender at Yorktown would end the American Revolutionary War. The British Army was the most formidable army in the world and had successfully campaigned abroad.…
James M. McCaffrey, the author of the historical novel “Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War 1846-1848”, writes about American soldiers during the Mexican-American War. The Mexican-American War was a huge contribution to the history of the United States and what it is today. He describes America’s first foreign war, the Mexican-American War, through the day-to-day experiences of the American soldiers in battle and camps. McCaffrey states “The purpose of the present work, then, is to look at the war from the viewpoint of the common soldier’s experiences. What prompted them to enlist in the first place?…
In 1778, the British tried to regain their colonies in the mainland South. it was because Chesapeake and the Carolinas were very profitable to the empire and were strategically important since they were close to the British sugar islands in the West Indies. Therefore, General Henry Clinton dispatched forces to the Caribbean and Florida. The British also laid out plans for an offensive drive into the Carolinas and Virginia. The British could have done many things differently in order to win the war in the South, but they made mistakes which led them to their downfall.…
King Philips War was the last Native American attempt to push off the invading whites from America. Their efforts were left in vain; however, it did inflate the most destruction on a white population in American history. The Native Americans problems and reasons for getting rid of the colonists were based from the lack of land, since more settlers kept pouring into their region, and competition for resources needed for survival. Nevertheless, the biggest problem, and what I believe became the ultimate reason for the war, was the Puritans earnest attempt to convert Native Americans into Christianity. New England established 14 praying towns where Native Americans could live, but under certain stipulations, they had to become essentially English.…
Commander Cornwallis (and his army) retreated to Yorktown, Virginia. Since Yorktown is a peninsula, General George Washington ordered Lafayette to block Cornwallis’s possible ways to escape by land. While this was happening, George Washington’s troops joined 4,000 French troops. This created a screen of troops facing Clinton’s (a Britain general) forces in New York. Another force of the Americans and the French marched rapidly to the Chesapeake Bay, this was where 24 French ships were waiting.…
When the war finished, George gained experience in border warfare. He was a perfect candidate to be the general for the revolutionary war. His brain was filled with admirable tactics that…
James Otis was a noteworthy figure prior to and during the American Revolution. He was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to a father who was well-known political figure. Otis graduated from Harvard and became a celebrated lawyer. He married Ruth Cunningham and they had three children, but their marriage was tumultuous because of their dissimilar political views. During the 1750’s, he was very loyal to the British Crown and was chosen as advocate general in the Vice Admiralty Court, a juryless court that settled disputes and had legal authority over issues in the colonies.…
The siege of Yorktown changed the face of the revolutionary war and history by giving America their independence. In Oct 1781, the Continental Army overran the British redoubts surrounding their defensive positions. Lt-Gen Cornwallis failed at logistically placing the British and Hessian armies at Yorktown, and Lt-Gen Cornwallis fleet was trapped by Rear Admiral Comte de Grasse’s fleet, and prevented the British and Hessian armies rescue by the British fleet. The Victory is certainly a direct indication of Lt-Gen Cornwallis’s failure to apply mission command principles.…
The core argument of George Washington and the American Military Tradition is that the military traditions from the Colonial period, and those developed during the American Revolution, had a lasting impact on the American military tradition and that those traditions can be seen through George Washington’s life as a military commander. The book makes this argument by focusing on colonial military traditions, civil-military tensions during the American Revolution, and tracking the influence of George Washington’s impact on the American military tradition through time. However, to fully understand the arguments throughout this work it is important to first understand Dr. Higginbotham’s background, the sources he uses, and the context from which his chapters originated. Dr. Donald Higginbotham attended Washington University of St. Louis and completed his PhD at Duke University under Professor John R. Alden and later became a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He wrote extensively on the American Revolution and was thus invited to deliver the lectures contained in his work, George Washington and the American Military…
People go through their lives every single day without batting an eye at what is happening behind the scenes. Every government has done something wrong, something atrocious, or even something just plain ridiculous. When people think of a conspiracy they probably go straight for something involving the Nazis or Hitler, but did you know there are conspiracies involving the very United States of America? There are plenty of truths in those conspiracies as well and many of them are more horrifying than any nightmare you could ever have in your life and are like something you would find in a modern horror film, but they are all too real. There have been records of the government committing heinous crimes without even the media knowing, which…
Few events loom as large within the consciousness of the United States as the American Revolution. It has been endless debated and mythologized from the moment of its occurrence. By the same token, here are few topics as studied as the American Revolution. This seminal event has been examined and deliberated by generations of historians to the point there are few historiographies as extensive as that of the American Revolution. This has led to endless biographies of the founding fathers, multitudinous examinations of each battle, as well, as economic, political and Atlantic based histories of the event.…
Washington won (and lost) a series of battles, including the final one against the British General Cornwallis (1781).…
His pistol hung down from his fingers between his knees. He still wore his uniform with its torn lapels and burned sleeves. In the firelight, his eyes were very bright. His lips were slightly parted. He could not breathe through his nose.…