George Washington Carver

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    Southern Campaign

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    Many Parliamentary members considered giving up the war in the American colonies and turn their attention its neighbors, France and Spain. The adopted strategy by the British would be to focus operations south of the Potomac River. “King George III enthusiastically embraced the concept of a Southern Campaign and outlined the purpose as early as October 1775: To call forth those who may have a sense of duty to their mother country; to restore British Government… and leave a battalion of…

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    All revolutions have had large impacts on how humans live today, whether they are about lack of food or cruel injustice and inequality. Earth has had many mishaps when it came to disagreements and fights for freedom, and history has proven time and time again that it has the tendency to repeat itself. Some say that the French Revolution had more significance than the American Revolution, but these people do not realize that all wars- whether civil or revolutionary- are huge contenders to how…

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    Battle Of Saratoga Essay

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    important date and was a very different battle. It was the clear victory that convinced the French to side with the Americans forever changing history and the course of the war. This battle had many impacts on the American people and gave General George Washington the belief that they could win their independence with the help of European allies. The Americans winning in the battle was a signal to the Europeans that the colonists of Patriots were capable of defeating the British on their own.…

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    James Madison was born in 1751 and in the state of virginia in the town of Montpelier where he would live his entire life. He was born into a wealthy family but grew up skinny and sickly. But even with all this happening he studied even when it endangered his own life studying. When he was 29 he served in the continental congress. When he was 36 in 1787 he kept a written record of the constitutional convention. In 1787-1788 James Madison helped write the federalist papers. In 1801-1809 He…

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    For Native Americans, Governors Island was a place to hunt, fish and gather nuts. They referred to the island as Pagganck which translate as Nut Island, after the island’s abundant oak and chestnut trees. It was the perfect location for local tribes to establish fishing camps. Around 1637 Wouter Van Twiller, a representative of the Dutch government purchased Governors Island from the Native Americans for two ax heads, a string of beds and a handful of nails. Twiller used the island for his…

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    Virginia Plan “ became the Constitution. James Madison is better known as the Father of the Constitution. Soon later in 1789, Madison was elected to the House of Representatives and worked with George Washington. Madison was a major influence on why the Bill Of Rights was released. Later in years, Madison left Washington and partnered with Thomas Jefferson once again. Being the secretary of state he supported the Louisiana Purchase. Madison found himself in a hard place and left Jefferson and…

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    that fact that it is here, in Fort Edward, where waterfalls and rapids make navigation by water impossible and thus early travelers on the Hudson were compelled to carry their canoes from this region on the river and nearby waterways such as Lake George and Lake Champlain. Early inhabitants of the region included both the Mahican and the Mohawk people. The region now known as Fort Edward has historically been a transportation hub because of its location along the Hudson River waterway, which…

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    Aaron Burr: His Father

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    My report will be about Aaron Burr Jr not Aaron Burr Sr that was his father.I will be explaining what he did for his country. First I will be talking about birthdate and death date also cause of death.Second I will explain his troubles during life and in the military also when he was helping his president Thomas Jefferson he was the third president.Third his life at home so family like kids, parents, and his two wives that he had.Fourth I will include fun facts or the crimes he might have…

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    for the entire war was George Washington, which is later why his colleagues named him president in 1789. Alexander Hamilton came to America in 1776, in which he pursued a war to prove orphans were worth more than anyone grasped. There was no war going on at the exact moment he came. He became friends with Hercules Mulligan, Marquis de Lafayette, John Laurens, and Aaron Burr, Burr also being an orphan. When war broke out, they all joined up. Burr was interested in being George Washington’s…

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    or the year 1580 in Lincolnshire, England. Smith had eight brothers whose names were Francis, Richard, Richard, Robert, Thomas, Edward, Sibill, James. And four sisters Alice, Ann, Joan, and Margery. Ann and Robert were twins. His parents names were George Smith and Alice S. Rickard. When Smith was a young adult he served as a merchant’s apprentice before deciding to serve the English Army in different places of the world. He began working as a soldier for hire and eventually made a campaign…

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