Fort Ticonderoga

Jackson Lane Professor Lamaree HIS 121 – 8:05am class August 2015 Benedict Arnold Benedict Arnold, too many was a patriot turned traitor, some say he was just loyal to his home country and he stood up for what he believes in. Arnold was born on January 14, 1741 in Norwich; Connecticut He was one of the many Benedict Arnolds to make an impact on the New World. People use the term “Your such a Benedict Arnold”, and most Know he was a traitor but no one knows the whole story. What Arnold did to…

with the Aboriginals throughout the Ohio River caused tension between the two sides and following nearly two years of undeclared battle, war was officially announced in May, 1756 from which the French dominated for the next two years at Fort Oswego and Ticonderoga. However, the tables quickly turned in Britain’s favour as they came to a truce with their Indian allies and appointed a new chief minister, William Pitt, who advised them to take on the territory with a new approach. This new…

Throughout history, the world of politics has been continually rocked by salacious scandals which distract from a politicians’ ambitions and place magnifying glasses on their moral character. Benedict Arnold and Andrew Jackson are no different. Each man rose to prominence during the tumultuous period of the American Revolution and both witnessed as their resolute pursuits for power, respect, and, most importantly, honor, helped manufacture their societal disgraces in the aftermath. These…

What was the Revolutionary War and what events happened that lead to the war? Problem [why is it important] I have chosen the topic of the Revolutionary War. I also have chosen to talk about all the events that happened leading up to the war. I choose this topic because the Revolutionary War was an important war that lead to America gaining independence from Great Britain. I wanted to write my research paper on this war because it was a war, that in my opinion, could have easily been…

Benedict Arnold A man, who was once known as one of the greatest generals involved in the revolutionary war, quickly gained the reputation of a traitor to America. General Benedict Arnold suddenly betrayed America and joined the British enemy. Much controversy is raised when discussing the reason Arnold chose to switch sides, but historical documents clear unanswered questions and have the potential to justify his reasons. From a different perspective, his actions signify personal gain, but…

4. What new challenges did the British government face in North America after 1763? How did republican ideology inform the colonists' view of their relationship to Britain? After 1763, British government began to face new challenges in North America; the challenges could be split into two categories: finance and control. British’s immense empire began to face threat from its traditional enemies like France and Spain, whom also wanted lands in North America. Other than its European enemies,…

If I was a poor uneducated white twenty-five year old male from a farm family in england around 1730 and I was given the choice to settle in one of the following; the New England, the middle, or the southern colonies, I would choose the New England. I would choose this region mainly because eliminating the south as a place to settle is easy because of how difficult life was there compared to New England. Environmentally, the climate of the New England Colonies were much more cold than middle…

loyalty to the king by voicing their desire to fix all the problems, while concurrently raising armies and massacring redcoats (AP 133) In May 1775, an American force, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, caught the British troops stationed at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. There, they secured a supply of gunpowder and weapons (AP 133) In June 1775, the colonists captured…

of them were “hired out” by their owners to work for others who needed their labor. All of their earnings, except maybe for a small allowance, went to the slaves’ owners. African Americans played a great role in the revolution. They fought at Fort Ticonderoga and the Battle of Bunker Hill. A slave helped row Washington across the Delaware. Altogether, approximately 5,000 free blacks and slaves served in the Continental army during the Revolution. By 1778, many states, including Virginia,…

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…