Tag: American Revolution

And they lived happily ever after

On this date in 1781 British General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown effectively ending the American Revolutionary War thus creating the perfect nation that never, ever again had any troubles or disagreements. What? That’s not in your history book? I mean “more perfect union.” Right? Note that the phrase is “more perfect.” Not perfect. We needed …

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365 Things I Believe: Liberty or Death

Patrick Henry gave his famous “Giver me liberty or give me death” speech at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia on this day in 1775. Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1736, to John and Sarah Winston Henry. Henry was: Elected to Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765 Admitted to the Bar of …

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