Continental Connection

"It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."(Franklin) The U.S. was not the only country fighting the British during the Revolution. They had several allied countries that helped them obtain the victory such as, France, Spain, and Holland. The British during the war had the most powerful military in the world. British military was well trained and well organized in battle. Britain overall had a…

There was many ways that George Washington impacted the US in a huge way that affected all our lives by all his accomplishments and set the expectations for future leaders, everything he did was going to be steppingstones for the presidents who followed. Throughout his life he was known as brave and a great leader naturally, this helped him when he became a military leader for the US. George Washington was a general and commander in chief of our colonial armies during the American Revolution…

Benjamin Franklin The state he represented is Pennsylvania. It got it’s name from Penn’s Woods, from which William Penn got from a debt that king Charles the II owed William Penn’s father, which he named Pennsylvania.It was settled by all kinds of people how were having trouble paying their taxes. Benjamin Franklin was a inventor, science person, and printer. He was on the committee to design both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and he signed them both.…

A professional army, was made up of men who chose to have a career in the military. These men underwent intensive training and their primary role was to be ready to fight, it also taught discipline and loyalty among ranks. Rigorous training was “necessary to control down-and-outers in the ranks.” Usually, a standing army was viewed as impending tyranny or “an obvious indicator as well as agent of corruption.” People also believed that a standing army could affect society from the inside, but…

Army was started and what it was founded on. First, I want to speak on the short lived slogan Army of one. I think that it was changed so fast because an Army is built on a team working together. History states that on June 14, 1775 The Second Continental Congress founded the Army; it is the oldest branch of the United States military. The Army was compiled of a bunch of volunteers that was ready to confront the British troops outside of Massachusetts. The Army was created to serve and protect…

Modern day Army Ranger’s link their history back to two unique periods of time. The earliest years of the Rangers come from the pre-American Revolution era led by Robert Roger. The post-American Revolution era was led by Francis Marion during the American Revolution and John S. Mosby during the American Civil War. While these men did not have the formalized training that is available today, it can easily be said that they would still have met the standards that were established. The second…

Washington.The world around Martha Washington changed as well”. “Content to be a matron in rural Virginia, she became a follower of the Continental Army. Martha Washington might have spent the war, as many wives of political leaders, diplomats and military teens such was the fate of Deborah Franklin, who died while her husband, Benjamin, was in France”. And such was the fate of Abigail Adams…

name now means traitor. He helped with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and the Siege against Quebec.He was an important military commander, helping with battles and political issues. The Americans were losing hope.The British were destroying the Continental Army. Only the guns of Fort Ticonderoga could save them.Benedict eagerly waited, hoping to be deployed there.Benedict was a different kind of person.He was encouraging and zealous, but also very aggressive.Fort Ticonderoga. The Green Mountain…

“Listen my children, and you shall hear”, Paul Revere and the American Revolution by Ethel Ames is about Paul Revere's journey to stop the red coats from invading. Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow is about the ride of what Paul Revere had. How accurate was Paul Revere's poem by Franklin Johnson was about how historically accurate Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow was. The poem Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow had many historically inaccuracies. Three ways he got the poem was…

In my opinion I believe that George Washington was the greatest leader that we have read about so far. In 1754 he had a small fort the he called Fort Necessity and the Native Americans and the French defeated his fort, but he was still considered a hero because he had struck the first blow in the battle. He led his army through the cold winter at one of his most famous accomplishments, Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War and though many people died of hunger and disease, the rest…