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Speciol Assistant t5 ' Oovrn rtunor: @2007 PhotoDisc Gomedy Gorner FALL 20O7 3 by June SENGPIEHL ack in Colonial times, there were many incidents that 1ed tn the beginning ,'Jo'"rilii5".3,t olL' ,ff:'5"##':3 to the American Revolution. of the difficulties The seeds of individuality that *:t-i'L"GJ,'#o:' fjlid"",$;ffi:Ufl were scattered all over the bgtWgen quoted John Adams saying, "we were colonies grew into seedlings of freedom, and they bloomed into the American GreatBritainand,,H,}j:*lXTi#,ifi;.1fl:t:1'f Revolution. We hear a lot about the thg COIOnieS. the ensuing days, certain events helped patriots, and some of them were very famous. John Adams, Samuel Adams, one third of the ffi:x[,["3ff'*:,.1:i';'.1; il"r:l,:i: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, peopre George Washington, John Hancock, and wanted lllil*r'...?ilt';:s- [i3:, ri,1'":f",+?: Patrick Henry-these names are familiar independgncg, ong are some-of the highlights' to us. A lot of credit for our freedom is due to these people. Many of the not-so-well- third wanred to stay ,r:?,:ff; J*:1:r'J;J",1;"""XT,1*"J known people stood up for independence Britain, other legal documents. This was met too, and this is what helped lead to our with Great with a loud uproar in the colonies, and eventual freedom. and one third a statement of grievances was adopted In the beginning of the difficulties and sent to Britain. Britain promptly between Great Britain and the colonies, were undecided. repealed the Stamp Act. 4 HIGH ADVENTT,RE, Then came the Boston Tea Party. Britain trted to impose the Britlsh were going to attack George Washington in two lts rvill on the colonies by giving the East India Company days at Whitemarsh. The next day, despite cold, snowy excluslve rigl'rts to ship tea into the colonies. In December rveather, she walked to a patriot outpost at the junction of 1773, a group of Boston rebels disguised as Native York and Germantown roads and delivered her warning, Americans dumped the contents of 342 chests of tea-a foiling the attack. cargo worth $90,000-into the harbor waters. Among in 1781, the British took over the Boiling's house in City different retaliatory acts, Britain chose to close the port Point, Va., as Lord Cornwallis's headquarters. Susanna of Boston, sending Britisl-r warships to Boston Harbor. Boiling, a teenager, overheard how the British planned Britain said they would only remove them when the colonists agreed to pay for the tea destroyed and to pay GOVCRNMENT future duty fees as ordered by the Crown. The colonies O? TAC ?COPLC, responded by organizing delegates to the Continental BY TAC ?CO?LC, Congress in l'hiladelphia. On April 18, 1775. in ?oP, TAe ?eo?Le... Lexington, Mass., British troops and Minutemen gathered, and several a surprise attack on the eyewitnesses swear that Marquis de Lafayette - the British fired first. Both nearby. Through a c sides engaged in a bnef tunnel built years before, a ! battle lasting to the next Susanna slipped away t =O day. This is often referred that night, rowed across O "shot 'round E to as the heard the Appomattox River, f the world" at the Battle of borrowed a farmer's =O Concord Bridge. horse, and delivered After a long struggle at the the news to Lafayette's Continental Congress, the headquarters. Declaration of Independence How do these seeds was drafted and then signed of freedom filter down on July 4, 7776. Then the and translate into our war began in earnest. Iives today? First, as While Paul Revere has Abraham Lincoln said in been given the credit and was memorialized in a poem, manr- other people helped to his Gettysburg Address 1n warn the patriots about the British troops and to foil their 1863, our "government of plans. Even though they were not as pivotal in the war the people, by the people, and the fight for independence, man). of their actions were for the people shall not critical. If they had not contributed, u,e might not be a free perish from the earth. " The nation today. United States of America On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere, \\'ilham Dawes, Jr., and is a republic governed by Dr. Samuel Prescott rode from Boston to Lexington and elected officials. We do Concord to warn the people that the British were coming. not have a king. In Virginia, Jack Jouett rode for 40 mlles at night to alert Secondly, we celebrate Governor Thomas Jefferson so he could escape from Independence Day as a Banastre Thrleton's dragons. In the future state of Delaware, national holiday so we Caesar Rodney, a delegate to the Continental Congress, won't forget what freedom learned that the delegates would be voting the next day in really means and the Philadelphia on the proposal for coionial independence. He sacrifices many Americans rode all night through a bad thunderstorm until he reached made for that freedom. the State House the next morning to vote with his fellow Finally, freedom and delegates. individuality are a way Sybil Ludington, the teenage daughter of Militia Officer of life in our nation. The Henry Ludington, rode nearly 40 miles in Putnam County, seeds of individuality that N.Y., the night of April26,1977 , to warn the Americans that blossomed into freedom the British were on their way to attack Danbury, Conn. still flourish today in our Lydia Barrington Darragh of Philadelphia listened to the country. This individu- British officers using a room in her house for their war ality demonstrates that councils. Then she sewed the information into covered we still love and practice buttons to pass on. On December 2, 1777, she heard that freedom. * FALL ZOOT 5 *Bf' \ by Bob PACE f I ,n:l often asked questions about paintball as boundaries will ! Oy noys. What is paintball? What are the mark the territory .5 rules?-Whal kind of games can we play? o[ each team.