Nathan Hale

A national sleep foundation poll found that 59% of 6th through 8th graders, as well as 87% of high schoolers, are getting less than the recommended amount of sleep on school nights. This often affects how attentive kids are when they get to school and can have a negative impact on the rest of their day. When students are tired they often don't take in the information they would otherwise pick up with an adequate amount of sleep. Starting classes at middle school and high schools no earlier than…

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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 officer. Benedict Arnold was an American officer. John Paul Jones was an American…

In George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger use letters and other primary sources to piece together the story of the Culper Spy Ring, and the identities of the members. This book that reads like an exciting spy action movie, tells all about how the course of history was changed by General Washington’s battle of wits against the British forces. The authors tell us this story to make their point crystal clear: Without the Culper…

When people usually talk about how the United States gained its independence from England, they only talk about the great generals such as George Washington, the first president of the United States. All of the renowned examples from the Revolutionary War are mostly men. However, there were several women who fulfilled their calling for the country and helped America to gain independence. The book entitled Sophia’s War is a historical fiction novel in which a young girl assisted her own country…

by the war, by his fellow soldiers, and by the terrible choices he must make. *Avi. Sophia’s War: A Tale of The Revolution. Simon& Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. 2013. Print In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Sophia is horrified by the event and resolves to do all she can to help the American cause. Recruited as a spy, she becomes a maid in the home of General Clinton, the supreme…

Narrator 1- “You may know of America’s greatest heroes in the Revolutionary War. George Washington, Lafayette, Von Steuben, and Nathan Hale are a few. But do you know of the traitors and villains? Some people went over to the opposite side and betrayed the colonies. They would do it for fame, revenge or other personal reasons. One of these people was Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army and the first American traitor. However, he did do many good deeds and because of lack of…

“The Easter Uprising of 1916 has become the foundational myth of the modern Irish state” (Reynolds 36). The actual act itself was impractical and more of a dream than a concrete reality. It was much like the American Revolution to a point. A determined few up against impossible odds against an entire country and her military, but in the long run the poor way that England handled the situation led to the aftermath of the revolt taking hold and giving birth to a political revolution instead (Walsh…

Washington didn’t know all of his spy’s identities. Washington made sure that the Culper Spy Ring had more support and better secrecy than previous spies. This is due to the fact when a Captain of the 19th regiment of the Continental Army named Nathan Hale volunteer in September 1776, before the battle of Long Island, to cross the British lines as a Dutch schoolmaster so he could gather intelligence. He was discovered when the British found sketches of their fortifications, number of soldiers as…

During the American Revolution, brave soldiers signed up to fight or die for their right to have freedom from the tyrannical grip that England had on America. General George Washington, leader of the Continental Army, led the nation to victory. However, he did not just have help from his army of valiant soldiers. General Washington also had the assistance of completely normal citizens who were appointed to gather information from the British that would be critical to aiding the general. Some of…