...Imagine you are stuck in a hut with a fire burning and your eyes stinging from the smoak, only to go outside and find you feet in pain from the unbearable cold you can feel in between the broken soles of your destroyed shoes. What if this was your life for 9 more months? In the winter of 1777-1778 George Washington led his men into the camp of Valley Forge to keep watch on the British in Philadelphia. The American soldiers were starved,diseased, and smok'd out from the terrible conditions they were in. Would you have re-enlisted at Valley Forge? I will not re-enlist because of disease, harsh conditions, and lack of support and supplies. I will not comeback because of the amount of severe illness and death this winter has brought upon our militia....
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...George Washington In the readings “What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader”, “Washington leads troops into winter quarters at Valley Forge”, “ Battle of Trenton.” and “Battle of Yorktown begins.” these articles portray Washington as a courageous leader, an experienced general and a masterful tactician. Washington was not the greatest of leaders; he did not win every battle but what sets Washington aside from other leaders was that he had courage. “In The battle of the Wilderness, Washington had two horse shot from beneath him”(Pg.1 What Made George Washington a Good Leader). Having horses shot from under him did not cause him to falter and he pushed on with his troops and led them to victory. Washington also demonstrated these similar traits in the battles of Yorktown and Trenton; he even demonstrated courage during the Continental army’s stay at Valley Forge .He also displayed courage while being doubted by many people such as his soldiers and officers. He decided to inoculate his troops in order to save them from dying of small pox. During the battle of Trenton Washington once more displayed courage by deciding to have his troops cross the Delaware River and fight the Hessians. The troops could have been sitting ducks while stuck in ice; this single decision could have changed history itself. If...
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...The price of freedom is paid with the blood of patriots. In December 1777, General George Washington made his winter camp at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The British army, under General Howe, was only eighteen miles away in Philadelphia. Washington had a problem. Many of his men have signed up to fight for nine months, and now those enlistments are coming to an end soon. The question for Washington is how will he get his men to re-enlist. For me, I must decide if I should quit or if I should re-enlist. After a long, hard thought, my decision to whether re-enlist or quit comes to a conclusion. I will re-enlist for three reasons: the need for healthy men, support from Congress and out of all things, I’m not a summer soldier. The first reason I will re-enlist is healthy men are needed. In Document A, Winter Quarters, the statistics claim that in December 1777 nearly 3,000 men suffered from illness at Valley Forge. Within a few...
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...Valley Forge: Would You Have Quit? Valley Forge was a tiny and horrible camp filled with depression and death. Valley Forge could barely fit Washington’s Army and the conditions were horrible. This camp tested the faith of the soldiers. It made soldiers wonder if they should leave or stay and fight for their country. If you had been a soldier, would you have quit? This question could have a huge impact on the war and the army itself. If I were a soldier, I would not re-enlist. I would not re-enlist because the conditions were horrible. These conditions raised the chances of death.Doctor Waldo states, “...No Meat! No Meat!..”, meaning there was no meat to provide the army with strength and silence the groans of every hungry stomach in the camp. Without food, how are soldiers supposed to have the strength they need to carry on in the war? Dr Waldo also states, “...skin and eyes are almost spoil’d with continual smoke…”, meaning the conditions were so bad that...
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...On June 17, a man named Dylann Roof was part of a crime scene. He shot and killed nine black church members in Charleston, SC, and injured 3 more. This young man was a white supremacist who took action against what he thought were the enemy. He was a known white supremacist among his peers. He would go on rants about the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the Baltimore protests that occurred earlier this year. His rants stated that “blacks were taking over the world” and that he told planned to kill people. He had a lot of pictures with the confederate flag in them, and he stated his support of racial segregation in the United States. Roof also had a website that was registered to him. On this website he had pictures of himself posing in front of a confederate battle flag holding a handgun, along with “a nearly 2,500-word manifesto in which the author criticized blacks as being inferior while lamenting the cowardice of white flight” (Robles para 3). Dylann Roof used the confederate flag as a symbol for white supremacy. He used the image in multiple places, including his website and on his car's license plates. This usage of the confederate flag shows how it could easily be used in hate crimes, and it is known to be a popular image among white supremacist groups. Valley Forge flag Co. is a business that produces and sells flags. This company has a huge presence in the United States with 4 locations and 300 employees. “It's American flags have been with soldiers at war, on the caskets...
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...|Pre-war event |Description |Contribution to the Revolutionary War | |French and Indian War|Also known as the 7 Years War, a conflict mostly between native Indian tribes, |Led to the British and French for the Posession of the continent. The French wanted to | | |the British and the French. |reclaim the Americas after severeal defeats. The French returned to join the American | | | |Colonists to defeat the Brtitish which led to American independence. | |Sugar Act |On April 5, 1764, the parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and |The Sugar Act had disrupted the colonial economy by reducing the markets to which the | | |Molasses Act of 1733, and this act was about to expire. Under the Molasses or |colonies could sell, and the amount of currency available to them for the purchase of | | |Sugar Act colonial merchants were required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon |British manufactured goods. This act, in addition to the Currency Act, set the stage for | | |on the importation of foreign molasses. |the revolt at the imposition...
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...University of Phoenix Material Causes and Outcomes of the Revolution Part 1: Causes Complete the grid by describing each pre-war event and explaining how it contributed to the Revolutionary War. |Pre-War Event |Description |Contribution to the Revolutionary War | | |French and Indian war was a conflict between Great Britain and France that had |They had refused to help pay for Britain’s war debt and they also refused to follow the | |French and Indian War|resulted in Britain taking over all of French lands in North America. |mandate on where they could settle or with whom they could trade with. | | |The Sugar Act was passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt |The Sugar Act was the first of Acts passed. It was an Act that the King had passed, to | |Sugar Act |brought by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running|increase money in the pay of colonists. That money would go to British Government, and | | |the colonies and newly acquired territories. This act increased the duties on |was one of the taxes that made the colonists rebel against England. | | |imported sugar and other items such as coffee, indigo, wines and textiles. | ...
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...training/schooling of any kind, and if he did he would be taught at home. He grew up his childhood as a slave and worked hard for no payment of any kind. Salem Poor didn’t have a last name so he took the name of one of his slave owners John Poor. He wasn’t a free man till his adulthood. What did Poor do during his adult life? The first time he got married he married a woman...
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...Wes (author) at military school (regimen). Wes fights with his sister, and is slapped by his mom. (88) He was supposed to take care of his sister rather than fighting with her, in any situation. Then, even though he attempted to plead himself in this case, his mother just punished him without excuse to teach him this is not a right behavior to the sister. What are the objectives of military schools like Valley Forge Military Academy? The objectives of military schools are to prepare cadets and current students to be a leader and officer in the US military and to be able to handle the rigors and hardship of commanding the men and women in the best military in the world, especially in times of war. But they also teach them to be diverse and open-minded and to be able to handle multiple situations. However, schools like Valley Forge Military Academy are particular for juvenile delinquent, such as Wes at that time, to reestablish healthy personality through the strict school policy and program. Discuss the efforts of Wes’ mother and family to...
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...University of Phoenix Material Causes and Outcomes of the Revolution Part 1: Causes Complete the grid by describing each pre-war event and explaining how it contributed to the Revolutionary War. |Pre-war event |Description |Contribution to the Revolutionary War | |French and Indian War|The seven years wars from 1756 to 1763. |Debt.. | |Sugar Act |Also known as the American Revenue Act passed in 1764. Put taxes on sugar and |The taxe were too high. | | |molasses. | | |Stamp Act |The act which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. |Caused rebellion and lead to the Townshed Act. | |Townshend Acts |The act imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imports into the |Caused rebellion and riots on both sides of the atlantic. | | |colonies. | ...
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...If somebody were to ask you what a hero is, your mind would probably jump to characters ripped straight out of the DC Universe. However, there is more to a hero than just flying and wearing your underwear on the outside of your pants. True heroes exhibit important traits such as bravery, perseverance, and willingness to devote yourself to helping others. There are many great examples of heroes in literature, some obvious, some quite unexpected. One great example of a hero would be Elie Wiesel from his memoir, Night. In this novel, Wiesel recounts his experiences with his father in a Nazi concentration camp and describes the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust. At the end of the novel, his father becomes sick with dysentery. It is during this part that Wiesel exhibits heroic qualities, such as him saying in the novel that he “did everything I could to give him hope.” This proves that he is devoted to helping his father, even though his situation is almost as bad as his father’s. That devotion is an...
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... As a young boy, Salinger was interested in theatre and dramatics. Growing up, he attended a public school on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. He was always a very quiet and polite young man. His parents, Sol and Marie, thought he would fit in perfectly in a private school – seeing how well-mannered that young Salinger was – they “enrolled him in McBurney School in Manhattan in 1932” (Alexander 2), but, just as one of his most famous characters, Holden Caufield, he did not fit in very well in the private school, struggling to keep his grades satisfactory. Concerned, Salinger’s parents sent him to Valley Forge Military Academy when he was just 15 years old. “There he was active in drama and singing clubs. He sometimes wrote fiction by flashlight under his blankets at night and contributed to the school’s magazine” (Alexander 3). Salinger graduated in June of 1936 from Valley Forge, and then went on to pursue a brief, but significant college career. He began his education at New York University, but quickly dropped out “to try performing as an entertainer on a Caribbean cruise ship” (Alexander 4). When he was 20 years old, he worked toward his college career once again. He enrolled in a class at Columbia University to learn and improve on writing short stories. “Salinger sold his first story to Burnett’s Story magazine for twenty-five dollars the next year” (Alexander 5). Salinger was not one to give up one something at a few failed attempts. Although he received more rejection...
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...HIST101 American History to 1877 A Man of Honor George Washington was the first president of the United States and is known as “the Father of Our Country. He was a man with much conviction, humility, and integrity. George Washington trusted in God, was willing to sacrifice much, and he was selfless. All of these qualities were important to his success as a military leader and as the leader of the nation. It is apparent by how revered Washington is today that he was a man of honor. George Washington begin life in Virginia in 1732. He was the son of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. The tale of him cutting down the cherry tree, is just a tale created by author Mason Locke Weems. Weems wanted Washington's life to appear more interesting in the biography he wrote. The biography, A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits, of General George Washington, “supplied the American people with flattering (and often rhyming) renditions of the events that shaped their hero”. Lawrence Washington was George's older brother. Lawrence was a great influence on George's life. After the death of their father, George spent a lot of time with Lawrence at his home, Mount Vernon. Washington learned the gentlemanly ways and manners of the time from Lawrence. One of the things George enjoyed most was fox-hunting. When Lawrence died, Mount Vernon was left to George. Washington received little formal education. This was due to his father dying when he was a boy...
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...and Princeton. 1777: victory and betrayal. On August 6, Benedict Arnold turned back a British force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Barry St. Leger. Horatio Gates defeated the British as Freeman’s Farm in September. At Bennis Heights, the Americans were not doing well, but Arnold, who wasn’t supposed to be involved, went to the front and rallied them. On October 17, Gates forced the British to sign a convention which forced British General John Burgoyne to return his Anglo-German troops and forbid them from fighting again in the war. This was a turning point. Unfortunately, Benedict Arnold began to question the merits of the Revolutionary cause. He soon joined the British side and led vicious attacks on Virginia and Connecticut. Washington suffered another defeat in Philadelphia and soon withdrew for the winter at Valley Forge. Thousands died from lack of food and supplies but they were soon able to acquire services from Baron Frederic William von Steuben. Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation in November. The year is drawing to a close. The war is still going strong. 1778: instruction helps. Von Steuben’s training of Washington’s army proved very useful in the Battle of Monmouth, NJ in June of 1778. They beat back the enraged British and skillfully employed use of their bayonets. General John Sullivan, useless against the British, was given a command against the Iroquois. He succeeded but sought recognition and rewards. This led to his resignation. 1779: fighting...
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...Escaping injured, Francisco did not give up like some soldiers who decided to retreat and lost hope in the rebels. He went on to fight another battle soon after called the Battle of Germantown, soon after defending Fort Mifflen till it fell to the ground from Howe’s forces. Traveling all over the States, he continued to fight from Valley Forge to New Jersey and enlist again. Francisco’s perseverance to risk his life in multiple battles did not even begin to explain the reasons for his credibility as a real...
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