Kelly C.

Leaders and People of the War

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Leaders in the Revolution and the Indian Chief in the French and Indian War were very important, from commanding armies and making plans to win the battle. The Revolution happened when the British King kept sending soldiers to America, and kept making taxing laws and taking their money. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. It started because both the British and French wanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, known then as the Ohio Territory.

            

    

 

 

Chapter 1:  Hamilton

            “Promise must never be broken.’’ Is something that Alexander Hamilton said during the war. Hamilton didn't have a strong hand in writing the Constitution, but he did heavily influence its ratification, or approval. He wrote 51 out of 81 papers in the Federalist (aka Federalist Papers) with the help of James Madison and John Jay. Also the last note  George Washington wrote was for Hamilton, and he founded the New York Post. Just like Hamilton, his oldest son also died in a duel just like Alexander Hamilton did on July 11th, 1804.

Hamilton was also a self-taught lawyer when he resigned. He had been reading the law on his own in Nevis and King’s College. He would study with John Jay and William Paterson. Who became two future Supreme Court Justices.

Hamilton helped his own political enemy become President. In the deadlocked 1800 presidential election, a House of Representatives controlled by the Federalists had two Republican candidates to choose from: Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Hamilton wrote a private letter to a House member urging that Jefferson, Hamilton’s political enemy, become the next President. “Mr. Burr loves nothing but himself—Thinks of nothing, but his own aggrandizement—and will be content with nothing short of permanent power in his own hands,” Hamilton wrote. “In a choice of Evils, let them take the least—Jefferson is in my view less dangerous than Burr."

          Lafayette

Did you know that King George III’s brother convinced Lafayette to fight against Great Britain?

In August 1775, Lafayette attended a dinner party at which Great Britain’s Duke of Gloucester, the younger brother of King George III, was the guest of honor. The duke, who had been condemned by the king over his recent choice of a bride, hit back at his royal brother’s policies in the American colonies and praised the exploits of liberty-loving Americans at the opening battles of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord months earlier. Lafayette, whose father died in 1759 fighting the British during the Seven Years’ War, received the inspiration he needed to strike back against the empire. “From that hour,” he wrote, “I could think of nothing but this enterprise, and I resolved to go to Paris at once to make further inquiries.”

After Lafayette died in Paris on May 20, 1834, (76 years old) he was laid to rest next to his wife at the city’s Picpus Cemetery in France. To carry out the request of “The Hero of the Two Worlds” to be buried in both American and French soil, his son covered his coffin with dirt they had taken from Bunker Hill in 1825 when the marquis laid the cornerstone to the monument that still marks the battlefield.

Benedict Arnold

"Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another."    

In 1779, Arnold began to sell secrets to the British. Secret correspondence passed between him and Major Andre, the British spy chief. They used Benedict's wife Peggy to pass letters written in code and invisible ink. Arnold met with Major Andre to discuss the takeover of West Point. He had been reducing the defenses of the fort to make it easy for the British to capture. However, a few days after their meeting, Major Andre was captured by the Americans. He had papers on him revealing Arnold's plot to surrender West Point. Arnold heard about Andre's capture and was able to escape to the British.

Benedict Arnold was named after his great-grandfather Benedict Arnold who was once a governor of Connecticut. He was descended from Rhode Island's first colonial  governor. Arnold was born on January 14, 1741 in Norwich, Connecticut. He was the fifth person in his family to be named Benedict Arnold

Aaron Burr

Burr was left an orphan at the age of 2. The toddler and his sister Sally, who was almost 4, were taken in by their uncle, Timothy Edwards. For two years, they lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts before they relocated with Edwards to Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Aaron Burr was very intelligent a and submitted an application to Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) when he was just 11 years old. An examiner barred his admission, but that didn’t stop Burr from reapplying two years later. This time, Burr—now 13—was accepted into the university, which his late father had presided over. Four years younger than most of his classmates, he earned the affectionate nickname “Little Burr.”

Burr suffered a stroke in 1834, which rendered him immobile. In 1836, Burr died on Staten Island in the village of Port Richmond, in a boarding house that later became known as the St. James Hotel. He was buried near his father in Princeton, New Jersey.

       

       

Tanacharison    

                                      (Tan-a-chor-a-son)

In 1753, the French began the military occupation of the Ohio Country, driving out British traders and constructing a series of forts. British colonies, however, also claimed the Ohio Country. Robert Dinwiddie, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, George Washington to travel to the French outposts and demand that the French vacate the Ohio Country.

On his journey, Washington's party stopped at Logstown to ask Tanacharison (Aka Half King) to accompany them as a guide and as a "spokesman" for the Ohio Indians. Tanacharison agreed to return the symbolic wampum he had received from French captain Philippe-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire.

Joncaire's first reaction, on learning of this double cross, was to mutter of Tanacharison, "He is more English than the English." But Joncaire masked his anger and insisted that Tanacharison join him in a series of toasts. By the time the keg was empty, Tanacharison was too drunk to hand back the wampum.

  Tanacharison traveled with Washington to meet with the French commander of Fort Le Boeuf in what is now Waterford, Pennsylvania. The French refused to leave, however, and to Washington's great consternation, they tried to court Tanacharison as an ally.

                                      

Question 1                                                       Question 4

 Why Did The French And Indian War Start?                            How Did Hamilton Die?           

A.  Anger                                                                                     A. Duel

B.  Just For Fun                                                                           B.Age

C.  Land                                                                                       C.Magic

D.  There Was No War                                                                 D.Shark Attack                        

Question 2                                                       Question 5

Why Did The Revolutionary War Start?                                     How did Aaron Burr Die?

A.  Anger                                                                                     A. Stroke

B. Hating The King                                                                     B. Magic

C. Just For Fun                                                                            C. Duel

D.  Don’t Know                                                                           D. Money

(Hardest)

Question 3                                             Question 6

Did  Washington plot to have Arnold kidnapped?        What was Tanacharison’s Nickname?                                  

A.Nope                                                                                       A.  Half Moon    

B.Yes                                                                                          B.  Half King

C.Who is Arnold                                                                        C. Nothing/Tanacharison

D.No idea                                                                                   D. I Don’t Know

Index

An examiner barred his admission

   adjective

closed or secured with a long rod or rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, or did not get into the college

to hand back the wampum

noun

a quantity of small cylindrical beads made by North American Indians from quahog shells, strung together and worn as a decorative belt or other decoration or used as money.

which rendered him

Which made him unable to serve

In the deadlocked 1800 presidential election

a situation, typically one involving opposing parties, in which no progress can be made.