1. The patriot
/related/frin.htm>, Lee formed a militia troop of young men in his neighborhood, was elected the leader, and marched his troop to a council in Alexandria where General Braddock was preparing a campaign on the Ohio river. ... In 1774 he was elected to attend the first Continental Congress ...
He even put the amateurs in front of Continentals, and he told them "give him 'two fires' and then they could run for their lives" (Fleming 177). ... Morgan's militia attacked them from the rear making Tarleton think that he had pretty much won this battle. Although he was soon surprised when he came in contact with the Continentals that just starting laying down his men. After several attacks and tricks the British militia had given up. ... Then they are going to build up their militia even more with the new states and wait to attack the North because, well, the can....
Where the colonies militia fought beside the troops of the British army and learned war first hand. ... This would prove to be an important beginning, because events such as the Continental Congresses were to follow. ... The other colonies formed into a body called the Continental Congress, which was an extra legal body, which was elected to organize boycotts and oppose British rule. ... Even with all of this, the major point in the road to the Revolutionary War is when the colonies united for the first and second Continental Congresses. On September 5, 1774, every colony but Georgia sent r...