Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Notes from Board ~ Oct.26

  • 1763-1775 ~ The Road to the Revolution
  • 1774 ~ Philadelphia
    • 1st continental congress represent American interest / challenge British control
    • John Adams
    • Sam Adams
    • John Jay
    • George Washington
    • Patrick Henry
    • Richard Henry Lee
  • April 18, 1775 ~ Lexington & Concord
    • British took seize and destroy arms in Concord 
        • also to find Sam Adams and John Hancock 
    • Battle of Lexington & Concord
      • Americans fire at British when the British march by Boston
      • 174 wounded
      • 73 dead
    • Fort Ticonderoga 
      • Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
    • Bunker Hill
      • "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
      • 1000 British casualties

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