The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17th, 1775. It was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War, actually fought mostly on a lower hill called Breed’s Hill, nearer the town of Charlestown. After two failed attacks, the British finally beat the colonists back. The battle gave the colonists hope though, overContinue reading “June 17 “the whites of their eyes””
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March 23 “It is not now easy to say what we should have done without Patrick Henry.”*
March 23rd, 1775 Patrick Henry gave a defining speech for revolution with England. In reviewing my library, I found several occurrences of Patrick Henry’s radical speaking. The book “The Story of America in Pictures” by Alan C. Collins, 1938, has the illustration of Patrick Henry at the First Continental Congress, and it was there thatContinue reading “March 23 “It is not now easy to say what we should have done without Patrick Henry.”*”
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