Tag: history

>> male narrator: December 17, 1777, Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania. A battered Continental army, or what remains of it, marches north through the driving snow in search of winter quarters. The year's campaigns have taken a heavy toll on the soldiers. Their clothes are tattered, their spirits down. Their commander in chief, George Washington, is feeling The strain as well. Three months ...

Foreign pendants now enters its fourth year longer than anyone had imagined battle after battle has failed to bring either side closer to winning In the north where the revolution began the war has ground to a Deadlock but in the South the fighting has just begun with their victory in Charleston South Carolina the British set grander sites toward ...

The man known to history as Doctor Benjamin Franklin was born on the 17th of January 1706 in Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in a small, two-room house. His father was Josiah Franklin born in 1657 in the Northhamptonshire village of Ecton, In England, to a working-class, protestant family who for generations were known for their intelligence, ...