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British Troops British Army
619 wordsThe Battle of Brandywine: Part 1 of 10 The British... Many of the 15, 000 British troops spent the night in Kennett Square -- population 2, 000 -- unwinding and carousing, while a battle General Howe's flanking strategy was devised two days earlier: While General Knyphausen attacked at Chadd's Ford, as Washington expected, Cornwallis would stealthily move north, cross the Brandywine, and flank Washington's right. [Map and a fuller The Americans... By the night of September 10 th, the American tr...
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Continental Army Sir William
1,588 wordsThe man who would one day be accused of "losing America" was born on New Year's Eve, 1738, the eldest of a titled and highly respectable family. The Cornwallis tribe had established itself in Suffolk, which occupies the easternmost knob of the British Isles. Though not fabulously wealthy, they had the kind of connections, through blood and marriage, that meant everything in British society. Young Charles's grandfather was awarded a baronetcy for faithful service to King Charles II; his father, a...
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Sir Henry North Carolina
1,558 words... pine woods. Out of approximately 3000 Americans engaged, only about 700 escaped. Immediately afterward Cornwallis sent his favorite cavalry officer, Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, to deal with Thomas Sumter's little army of 1000. Tarleton dealt in spades; he caught Sumter literally napping on Fishing Creek, and destroyed or scattered his entire force. With all effective resistance crushed, Cornwallis began a rather leisurely invasion of North Carolina late in September, establishing a base of o...
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Second Continental Congress King George Iii
942 wordsOn May 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. The Congress dealt with the military crisis the colonies were in with England. It organized forces around Boston into the Continental Army and appointed George Washington to commander-in-chief. The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first major battle fought in the war. The colonists had made a fort on Bunker and Breeds Hills to fire on English ships approaching Boston. Thomas Gage ordered his British troops to attack the hills. He...
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1,586 wordsHenry Knox was born on July 25, 1750 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son to William and Mary Campbell Knox. His parents were both pioneers from Northern Ireland. Henry was the seventh of ten children. William Knox was a shipmaster that traded among the West Indies. He suffered from money difficulties and mental stress, passing away at the age of fifty. Because of this, Henry gave up school and became the sole support for his mother. 1 At the age of 12, he was employed by a Boston bookseller...
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Samuel Adams Continental Congress
1,467 words1. Mercantilism was the economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16 th to the 18 th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of enemy nations. 2. Bounties were payments made to encourage production of certain goods in the colonies. 3. The French and Indian War was part of a great war for empire, a determined and eventually successful attempt by the British to attain a dominant position in North Amer...
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Company New York Time Of Day
1,379 words... accesses. The native people coined this new strategy called guerrilla warfare. The basis of this style of warfare is to quickly attack your enemy and run away. The Americans carefully selected their battleground and time of attack as much as possible in guerrilla warfare so that they could have every advantage possible so that they could have a chance to win. Two such instances where the time of day and choice of terrain were the complete reasons for British defeat were at Stony Point and at...
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George Washington British Army
1,357 wordsGeorge Washington battled with the British army during the American Revolution. He assembled his army, worked out a plan and ordered them to attack. Washington was involved in various battles with the British army who were attacking America. Washington was at all costs determined to win all the battles. He lost some due to the shortage of food for the troops among other factors. Among the battles in which Washington was involved were: - Battle of Trenton Battle of Princeton Battle of Brandy wine...
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1,380 wordsI Spy Tomorrow will be the day of reckoning; I will soon know my fate. Tonights the 25 th of March 1781, 10 days since the British victorious Battle of Guilford Court House. Lord Cornwallis and his men have decided not to pursue the retreating Continental Infantry lead by that cunning Rhode Island native, General Nathanael Greene. He had opted instead to retreat and move back here in Hillsborough. And this decision has signaled the end of my cloaked and covert activities. Everything started when...
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Sappers And Miners Siege Of Yorktown British
384 wordsCreative Writing: Siege of Yorktown It was four oclock in the morning when my commanding officer awoke me and we were ordered to prepare to march. We had set up an extensive camp at Chatham in New York, we all believed that we would attack New York City. It turned out that we were marching on towards Yorktown. When we arrived at Yorktown the bay was full of French ships. Our army along with the French encircled Cornwallis. Cornwallis did not surrender, he waited for a larger British fleet to sav...
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Set Up Camp French And Indian War
2,212 wordsBenjamin Martin had seven children. His wife died while giving birth to his youngest daughter, Susan. The Martin family lived in South Carolina, where he built a small home on a farm. The Martins were well known and liked by both Patriots and Whigs alike. They only hired freedmen. Benjamin enjoyed making furniture; his main goal was to make the perfect chair, the three-pound rocking chair. His plantation, Fresh Water Plantation, was his retirement plan. The Patriot begins in March 1776, with a m...
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2,219 wordsGeorge Washington: Classical Sun Tzu Strategist And George Washington: Classical Sun Tzu Strategist And Master In The Art Of War The American defeat of the British during the Revolutionary War was a direct result of George Washingtons incredible leadership and generalship which epitomized the greatness of Sun Tzu's Art of War Introduction The key to the success of the American Revolution was the George Washington himself. Faced with a near impossible task of defeating a tremendously powerful ene...
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