Middle Colonies

n this undated letter, written at the request of Jeremy Belknap, corresponding secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Paul Revere summarizes his activities on 18-19 April 1775: he recounts how Dr. Joseph Warren urged him to ride to Lexington (to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of British troop movements); how he had previously arranged with some fellow Patriots to signal the direction of those movements by placing signal lanterns in the steeple of Old North Church; and how he left…

Revolution its Common Sense What is persuasion? It means to convince, to induce someone to believe in something. Thomas Paine was truly the king (though he may not favor that analogy) of persuasion. In his work Common Sense Paine does not give anyone else a chance to give their opinion because he will already be convincing them otherwise. With his Classical writing structure Paine is very firm and confident in what he is saying. In every word he is influencing the reader to believe what he does…

Silas Deane died from consuming laudanum laced with poison by Edward Bancroft, who thought Deane had to be silenced from knowing something he shouldn’t have. Benjamin Franklin had shared a lodge with both Deane and Bancroft during their business in Paris. The documents received by Franklin had been somehow leaked into the public since “Lord Stormont and the British newspapers made embarrassingly accurate accusations about French aid” (9). It was either Deane or Bancroft that relayed what those…

Franklin Saves the Peace In Franklin Saves the Peace By Thomas Fleming the thesis was how Benjamin Franklin helped to save the peace and how it resulted in the American independence. “Benjamin Franklin was the American, ambassador to France,” (75). Benjamin Franklin was a great negotiator which allowed him to work so well with the British. He also knew how to analyze situations well and figure out the best option as he did better than anyone else. The main points the support the thesis are…

I will be discussing ‘The Petition of the Nobles’ and the ‘Defense of William of Orange’. ‘The Petition of the Nobles’ was brought forth by a group of nobles who objected the laws against Protestantism and the unjust sentences passed down upon them by Phillip the King of Spain. The ‘Defense of William of Orange’ was written by William after Phillip II called for his elimination by assassination in ‘The Proscription of William the Silent’ (March 1580) due to his role in being the leader in the…

The Military Revolution was a notion first introduced by Michael Roberts in an inaugural lecture at Queens University, Belfast in 1956. In this lecture; entitled The Military Revolution, 1560 – 1660, Roberts outlines a series of military advances that lead to an upheaval of European society (Roberts 1967). The change that this so called “revolution” instigated drastically reconfigured the understanding and experience of war for Europeans. Storrs and Scott noted this particularly in the context…

Leadership is the ability to lead or guide others. That is the definition of leadership, but that to some that is not what a great leader. A great leader is honest, reliable, has confidence, and a great communicator. John Adams, James Madison, and James Monroe are presidents who have these qualities. John Adams know best for being the second President of the United States. John Adams had a great foreign policy, but a very terrible domestic policy. His domestic policy was called the Alien…

Scotland, and they inherited the family mansion. The Revolutionary War had ended twenty years ago, and many people were starting to venture to the 13 colonies. Most in search of new opportunities, including one of the lovely ladies named Amelia. The story starts out in a grand feast in honor of Jane Rockfield who would soon be departing to the colonies. “I dare say,” Ms. Rockfield exclaimed, “why this might be one of the best marzipan sweets I have ever tasted. It is quite delicious, you must…

With the issue of dealing with the community as a whole and whether or not the individual is central to progress should also bring up the matter of equality. For the topic of equality Howard Zinn and Mary Beth Norton are the authors to look at specifically because of the fact that they wrote from the standpoint that most writers don’t consider; the lesser of the ranks. Howard Zinn describes the rebellions against Britain which required the Americas to develop a military; the issue with this…

After suffering from this metaphorical slavery, the colonists were determined to focus on equality when they got to write their own constitution although they weren’t quite sure how it would look. The Boston massacre was the first time that the colonies united together against the British and so it inspired them to join together and form their own country, something they would accomplish six years later. Benjamin Banneker wrote Thomas Jefferson a letter in 1791 calling him out on his…