... , in Westmoreland county, Virginia. He attended a private school in England, returning to Virginia in 1751. That being the era of the French and Indian War , 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. The ... he took great pride and on which he produced tobacco crops and peach brandy. Despite his love for the land, Richard Henry Lee lived for politics. A colonel of theWestmoreland County militia, he moved into political life first a...

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... even though their country had to face the strongest military power at the time. The main part of the American army was militia men. Even though the Americans had lacked a formalized Army, the militia that it possessed was very effective in the determent of the British troops. The battle at Bunker Hill in ... the British were no match for the American aspiration. When the British began to build up forces on Staten Island with several thousand troops, the militia fought against it, which led to the Battle of Long Island on August 26, 1776. Even though the Americans lacked the experience, t...

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... who sided with American Independence, this again was John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. The House of Burgess and Continental Congress representative was instrumental in American history, influencing the colonial grievances with Britain, inciting colonial British disgust, and most certainly his contributions to the ... of Benedict Arnold, a patriotic traitor. By all means, Arnold had vast impacts on both American and British histories. He was an extremely powerful militia general during the revolutionary war, contributing in many ways to the independence ef...

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... shooting the citizens. All of this propaganda has cause so much anger that the first continental congress is created from a small group of secret rebels. This small group of rebels tries to recruit an army with little success. Rumors of this army made it back to the British army. By the time the story reaches the British it has been extremely exaggerated they hear ... things like the continently army has enough supplies for a 1000 men for 100 days. In April 1775 the British army marches towards Lexigington where they meet up with a small militia group. This group tells the British that ...

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... point where a total separation was needed. With the help of almost the continent of Europe, our chance of defeating the powerful, but lonely British army seemed bearable. They also received selected competent officers from foreign countries to support the patriot cause. Lafayette, Von Steuben, and De Kalb became household ... We were severely short in just about every single surface that needs to be covered to fight a war. We had literally no regular army or navy. Our militia units were made up of amateur soldiers. On top of that, they were poorly equipped. Most officers were picked fro...

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As a result of British ruler King George III's tyrannical grasps for power, the colonists decided to take things into their own hands and convened the First Continental Congress on September 1774 in Philadelphia. This was the first attempt to put an end to the King's desperation. Here, colonists signed the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. This stated ... the mother country, despite the fact that the intentions of the colonists were to escape. Over the next year, tensions between England and the colonists accelerated. In Lexington, British militia and colonial militia crossed paths and f...

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... brothers. At this time in the American Revolution only a few colonies with militias fighting against the British. Henry is pleading with Virginia to make a militia of its own and fight. In his speech he asks, "what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ... to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House?" [Henry, pg. 1] Henry is asking the Continental Congress what the British have done in the past to justify the faith Americans had in the ministry. For 10 years the colonists were treated as ... unknown, pg. 1]...

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... . In the late eighteenth century, colonists began to boycott British goods, attack British troops, and protest as an attempt to get rid of these unfair laws and taxes. They established a Continental Congress, which "coordinated the colonies resistance to British policies." In 1775, because Britain was angry with the colonists and George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County ... resignation Washington was back on the fighting line, this time as a volunteer, which "enhanced" his reputation and he was soon promoted to "colonel and commander in chief of the Virginia...

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