First Continental Congress

Great Britain’s joint operations in New York and the South during the War of American independence were strategic failures because she misinterpreted the nature of the war and falsely assumed the support of widespread loyalists in the American colonies, especially in the south. (Carpenter, lecture) The lack of strategic coherence throughout the campaigns coupled with governmental misperception and the inability to cut off the American supply support added to the failure as well. The initial…

many men have already done. The decision is to stay. There is many reason but the main choices for staying is many men have gotten sick, you are a faithful servant to your country and you want what you came to the new world for which is freedom. The first of February in 1778 3,989 men became sick which is about one half of our troops. Disclaiming in document A. As any young people you value your life you want to live to your full potential. All this death and sickness makes…

French Government to enter the war as their ally. After capturing Fort Ticonderoga, Burgoyne and his troops headed south, giving the American troops time to regroup. General George Washington sent Benedict Arnold, Daniel Morgan, and two brigades of Continentals from the Hudson Highlands. This resulted in the strengthening of Horatio…

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania was George Washington’s winter camp for the Continental Army, in Dec. of 1777 to June 1778. Valley Forge was a difficult place to live in, little food, low supplies, tattered clothes, and no shoes. If you had been in Washington’s army would you have quit? No I wouldn’t have quit because, there was a lot of sick people but not many were dying, Washington was getting help, I don’t want to be a “Summer Soldier. I would not have quit Washington’s army. Even though there…

Alvin York’s first and most difficult battle was fought not on the battlefield, but in his own mind and soul, as he struggled to reconcile his firm belief that God did not want him to deliberately set out to kill another human being with his equally strong belief that it was his duty to defend his country. In his diary, York explains that his mother tried to claim that Alvin was her only means of support and that she needed him at home. He goes on to say that his pastor wrote to the army…

The Revolutionary era took place from 1763-1789. There were many key military people in this era. King George lll was the ruler of Great Britain. George Washington was the commander of Continental Army. William Howe was the commander in chief of British Army in North America. Henry Knox was an American general. Nathan Hale was an American soldier and spy. John Burgoyne was a British general who surrendered to American general Horatio Gates. Baron Friedrich Von Steuben was a German…

I messed up in the first paragraph. I tried to fix it but it didnt let me. And i was getting frustrated trying to fix it because I would type something to fix it and another work would disappear. In the first story it talks about how in April, 1775 the British General Thomas Gage ordered his soldiersto destroy American rebel military stores at Concord, Massachusetts. And then during the Winter of 1776, Gereral Henry Knox arrived with artillery to support America's Continental army and men from…

Lexington and Concord… Who Fired First? The British were not defeated up until the Battle of Lexington but there is no true idea of who fired the first shot of that battle, the British soldiers or the Minutemen. When the smoke cleared from the field in the aftermath of the historical Battle of Lexington, eight Minutemen and one British soldier lay dead. Both sides accused each other of firing the first shot and neither would take the blame of kicking off the start of what would turn into the…

If I were a member of the American Continental Army and the time came for me to either quit or re-enlist, I would have quit. There are many reasons as to why I would quit. For instance, if I had survived this long, I’d probably be counting down the days to go home. Most of the soldiers or recruits could have families that miss them every single day. They would be glad to see their loved one in person rather than through a letter. I know I would myself. From Document A, it talks about how many…

Germaine why did he continue to push forward with the British force against Major-General Horatio Gates and Brigadier Benedict Arnold’s American army in three groups and not just one huge group. The British army did outnumber the American army. The first…