Essays on The Revolutionary War

Introduction

This paper covers the Saratoga campaign of the Revolutionary War. The paper describes the tactics, leaders, battles, as wells the consequences of the battle. Saratoga campaign of the revolutionary war occurred in 1777. It was as a result of the British high command attempting to gain the military control of the Hudson River. The river valley was located in North America. The British were aiming to conquer the Americans and expand their personal interests. For example, gaining economic power and showing other nations the strength of their military. The period was marked by the American Revolutionary War (Corbett 38). ...

The Whiskey Rebellion began in January of 1791 when Secretary of Treasury Hamilton proposed a tax upon whiskey in an attempt to produce a stable economy nearly twenty years after the Revolutionary War (PBS 2000). While Hamilton’s intention appeared to be for the sake of the country, however, it instead instilled a revolt which would threaten to destroy the nation that they had spent thousands of lives to create. This rebellion was instigated by those who lived in the western part of Pennsylvania who deemed the tax “an abuse of federal authority wrongly targeting a demographic that relied ...

The British colonial government enacted various Acts in thirteen different colonial frontiers in America with the aim of raising revenues. Some of these Acts included the Stamp Act, Sugar Act and Townshend Act. However, these developments were never invited by most of the regions colonized as they resented the taxation without representation. Matters got worse in Boston after the formation of Boston Tea Party. With the increased threat Boston was posing on the British colonial rule, King George of Britain ordered that the region be placed under a tight military scrutiny. In 1774, Boston’s city harbor was shut ...

The Reasons That England did not have a Revolution when France Did

The reasons that England did not have a Revolution while France did is (1) they had already had two revolutions in the 1600’s. When Charles I had tried to eliminate Parliament. This resulted in the English Civil War and Charles I being beheaded. Later when James I took the throne there would be another revolution due in part to James I’s strong Catholic beliefs (2) They had also just spent many years fighting the Revolutionary War thirteen years prior to the French Revolution (3) There was not a clear consensus amongst the British on whether the French ...

Describe how Spain, England, France and Dutch’s different economies-along with their justification for expansion-shape their settlements in North America –

The colonization of North America revolves around the need for Spain, England, and Spain to conquer and control the continent. The French and the Spaniards governed through autocratic sovereigns while the English were free to govern themselves as much as they followed the English law. The biggest advantage, therefore, for the English to expand into North America was that they allowed immigration which enabled them to boost their colonial population that helped them to participate more actively and on a wide scale in agricultural activities. The English colonies were established by a royal charter and settled first in Massachusetts ...

Central to American independence was the Revolutionary War of between 1775 and 1783, which saw the English Empire relinquish her control of the Thirteen Colonies in North America. Freedom came with the eradication of all monarchical rules and the formation of the United States of America under a Constitution to protect democracy. In that sense, Britain lost her territories because of the conflicts that emerged between the Empire and the colonists. Evidently, from the fact that the mother country sought to exert direct control over the colonies from its distant location to the notions of liberty that permeated the ...

Introduction

Moby Dick is considered the great American novel. There are many reasons Moby Dick has earned this award, from the accolades of English critics in Melville’s day to the positive commentary by Literary critics and theorists today. Melville was a master of sentence style, and wrote many complex and highly structured sentences in the novel. Likewise, he filled his text with allusions and references to the greatest works of literature, including the Bible, Paradise Lost, King Lear, and the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. While all of these elements contribute to the greatness of Moby Dick they are ...

The constitutional provisions had considerable limitation regarding presidency following the American Revolution while providing considerable powers to the Congress. From the presidency of George Washington to Abraham Lincoln, it was a period of shaping the nation through sorting out national borders, establishing important precedents and governance principles in a bid to create a national identity. With regard to George Washington, he did not have a high level of education, but known for his manly prudence and wisdom that enabled him to become the head general during the revolutionary war. Instead of seizing power through military means after the revolutionary ...

During the American Revolution in the 1770s, African Americans soldiers participated in valor. Some were fighting for the Britain colonialists while others were fighting for American patriots in their struggle for independence. The slaves fought alongside their masters so that they could get human rights and freedoms enjoyed by other Americans. During this time, slavery was at peak, and most African Americans were under servitude and gross abuse of their rights (Matthews 369). Slaves imported from Africa and other parts of the world were sold to slave masters especially in the North. When the revolutionary war ended, most soldiers ...

Adam Smith:

Adam Smith was born in Scotland June 16, 1723. He is one of the most revered personalities in the history of the United States (Hanley 40). After the age of 15, he joined Glasgow University where he commenced his philosophy studies. Adam Smith later attended Oxford’s Balliol College in the 1740s. After graduating, he traveled extensively across Scotland, lecturing the public on his economic philosophy. He was a strong believer in the free market economy, which he considered as a system of natural liberty. The Wealth of Nations remains one of the Smith’s most famous works in ...

Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail remains one of the most famous essays written by Dr. King, and demonstrates his mastery of rhetoric as well as ethics. Dr. Martin Luther King penned the letter while in jail for protesting segregation and Jim Crow laws in the South, and for equality and over all civil rights for African Americans in the rest of the United States. King has always been considered the most important of the civil rights leaders of that period, and the eloquence and his masterful use of rhetoric and other persuasive techniques on display ...

Introduction

The American Revolutionary War was a turning point in the history of the United States of America. It signified the independence of America from the British colonizers. The war surrounding this independence of America has been featured in films such as The Patriot. Through such films, everyone can learn about historical wars that shaped the future of the United States (Ansen 58). However, the questions that arise from such movies as The Patriot is if they are truly historically accurate in their character depiction, scenery and weapons that were used, what the film got right and what it got ...

[Enter Student Name] [Enter University Name] In this essay, we are going to explore and prove that Patrick Ferguson, a famous Scottish officer in the British army that was known for his actions during the American War of Independence, was a great man. In considering that Ferguson was a good man, we will specifically be looking at the ideas that he would never shoot another officer in the back, Ferguson would not kill someone who was innocent and would have just been a victim of war, and he would wear a checkered outfit while in battle to ensure that ...

The American colonies had long wanted to be free from Britain. They felt that it was time to become an independent nation, which would consist of the thirteen colonies. Many reasons triggered this desire. The King, who ruled from Britain, imposed taxes that made them feel chocked. Issues that ranged from taxes to battle of Concord made the Americans agitated and impatient with the monarchial form of government. Various authors during and the period of revolution and in the contemporary society wrote about the different causes of the Revolutionary War in America and the fruits this war bore. During ...

Lack of proper organization of the English rule in the American colonies is what brought about the Revolutionary. The improper organization of the British rule involved coming up with the policies and making moves that did not favor the colonists causing them to revolt. The causes of the Revolutionary War were both political issues and economic issues. However, as it is going to be established in this paper; the causes of the Revolutionary War were more economic issues than political ones since the political issues only arose after the economical ones.

The interests of the colonial power in the ...