Battles of Lexington and Concord

own men, we will never deceive the enemy." Which is why Mr. Washington did not tell his men that they were going to Yorktown. (Military Quotes) As the continental army march to Yorktown the French Cut the British off by the sea. The battle of Yorktown was the final battle to end the revelation war. George Washington was about to march his men into New York until his scouts told him that General Henry Clinton was sending troops to Yorktown. George wanted to make Clinton think that they were…

During the late eighteen hundreds, the thirteen colonies decided to branch off and become their own nation rather than bowing down to the Crown. The film, The Patriot, exposes the Continental Army’s struggle and tragedy that came along with revolting against a major world power. Dissension grew from 1760 to 1774 between the colonists against British rule, thus spawning the call for liberty. This drive for rights and independence led to the first governing body of the colonies called Continental…

Townshend Acts of 1767, the Tea Act of 1773, the Intolerable acts of 1774, tension continued to rise between the British government and the New England colonies as they contended against each other. Finally, on April 19th 1775 at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the American Revolution had officially…

Influential Events of the American Revolution There were many important and influential events that stoked the flames of revolution before the battles of Lexington and Concord. These include events such as the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Tea Party, and many more. Though all these events were important, none were as important as the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770. On that night, British soldiers opened fired on a mob of protesting colonials, killing three and wounding eight. This violent…

Despite such claims to republicanized monarchy in Great Britain, certain colonists and thinkers were not convinced. Englishman, and later colonial resident, Thomas Paine, for example, called into question the integrity of such claims in his pamphlet Common Sense. Written in 1776 and dispensed throughout the colonies, this seminal pamphlet attacked the absoluteness of the British monarchy. Unlike Wood’s interpretation of British monarchy—which is, granted, aided by hundreds of years of…

Our country has quite an interesting history, which begins from the time Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered the Americas while in search for a quicker water route to Asia. Afterwards, several countries such as the Dutch, Spanish and English explored North America’s interior. Soon the English founded colonies and in 1607 the first successful colony, Jamestown (in Virginia), was founded. Others had came soon after, such as Massachusetts (the Puritans), Pennsylvania (the Quakers),…

The American Revolution was a fight between Great Britain and the original thirteen colonies. The thirteen colonies wanted their freedom from Britain. The start of the battle was at Lexington and concord in April of 1775 between troops and colonial militiamen. That following summer, rebels waged war for independence. Three years later in 1778, the French joined the war siding with the colonists. The Americans won the war in 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia after the British surrendered. But, it…

Not everyone knows about The American and French Revolutions and that is why I am here to tell you what I learned. I will explain to you about these events and why they are important. The American and French Revolutions are important historical events. They have many similarities, and also, many differences. You will learn a lot of them while reading this essay but not all of them. The American and French Revolutions have lots and lots of similarities and I am going to tell you about some of…

approaching a poem for the first time: Who is the speaker? Who or what is the audience? The speaker is most likely the poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. The audience was intended to be all of the people who attended the ceremony of the completion of the Concord Monument, but as we can see the extent of this song/poem reached far beyond that. What circumstances gave rise to the poem? What situation is presented? The tragedies and The poem references…

Patrick Henry was an American Patriot and an orator during the movement of independence in Virginia. Henry’s speech, “Give me Liberty,” was delivered on March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond Virginia. Patrick Henry’s speech was heard by many important delegates such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. He presented this speech in a very firm and alert manner, while also being respectful. The point of view Henry was trying to convey was that there is a need to fight for God’s…