Liberty's Kids 110 - Washington Takes Command
Feb 18, 2020That's where it goes, never give up, you represent America, how can I see it any other way today in the children of freedom? Washington is the only hero we have, the only man the whole country will support, otherwise the revolution will remain the New England war you signed up for. this army for six months of service however the enemy is still behind his barricade he is not going home but neither did many of your friends die in that fight on bunker hill defending an idea that idea is freedom July 1775 dear mother This is how it has been.
The most difficult, hot and obstacle-filled trip I have ever taken, thank God, it is almost over, we are 10 days from Philadelphia and we should arrive in Boston at any moment. General Washington will take
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of the Continental Army and Dr. Franklin has assigned James and me to report on it. James is embarking on a great experiment, how do you know where these birds will go? They are carrier pigeons. The gazette will receive news of the war before any other newspaper. Fly home. Little brother, he said no. I keep telling you that we should eat. Here we are I can't wait to see the army I can't wait to eat This is an army General Washingtontakes
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of the colonial forces in Boston The general has begun to impose discipline on the enthusiastic and patriotic but disorganized group of citizen soldiers who are They face General Howe's formidable British regulars.I don't know how general
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is going to turn this mob into an army. a more careless, disrespectful and stubborn group than this journalist has ever seen, but dr. Franklin. This is supposed to be James' report from the front. read is nothing like what he said in his privilege as dispatch editor, besides, if the army is going to become a real army, they are going to need money from congress and congress won't give it if they think the army is hopeless, It was a brave thing. let thekids
move on, but I can't help but worry about them, they'll be fine, Moisés, James makes a good reporter and Sarah, well, if any of thosekids
step out of line, Sarah will clear them up soon.She sees some of James's pigeons, but I have seen many pigeons, but none of them look like war correspondents. I told him the distance might be too great. He uses the army gallopers as a precaution. General Washington has his work cut out for him. because he has to strengthen the area around the entire city and somehow turn this group of farmers and lazy people into an army. um prison weapons, would you say the rations here are low? I would say that the rations here are non-existent. I hear things will change now that General Washington is in charge.
I heard there is an island in the south where dogs can talk and wear hats. Do you really work for a newspaper? Yes, in fact, Dr. Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette, Pennsylvania, what is business? This from them, Dr. Franklin, says that all the colonies have a common interest in this war. That's very good. I'm only interested in his servant and his part in this war, which will end in 52 days. 52 How can he be so sure? After that, that's when my enlistment ends, that's when most of these men will be on their way home. What if the British are still in Boston?
As far as I'm concerned, they are welcome. Look lady, I'm a dry shopkeeper. products mainly some frivolities for the ladies and things like that, I can't afford to let my business run on its own and there's Jeremiah Breddick, he's a farmer who will bring his hay and sweet corn if he's stuck here parading for the lord Washington, what? What are these kids doing here? Take it easy, striker, they're not doing any harm. He says he writes for a real newspaper and you come up with what you're supposed to be. I'm not supposed to be anything. I am very surprised.
Maurice to Twilight, did you do it? Listen to that guys, this tadpole doesn't have dirty laundry for a name, can't you read, of course, is there something you would like me to read to you? a little rascal, huh, look at the big hog farmer from Virginia, everyone knows nothing good ever came of him. from the store I hope you are as good at fighting redcoats as you are at chasing children, my dear mother James spends more and more time every day with General Washington's aides trying to discover and inform dr. Franklin of the army's plans, but only while the The naval guns in the harbor remain silent.
I'm afraid we still don't know if the pigeons are passing. I thought Philadelphia was like that. Are you sure they are not British pigeons? We have only one doctor, poor Dr. Marston, for the men here. and at school and you know that he himself is not well, where these men were wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, yes, but most of them are just sick, it's the fever that drives most of them, we don't have ice, I wonder what men would do with devotion to duty or country. Go through something like this, we're fighting for our freedom, young lady, as simple as that, if these new English don't know how to drill yet, they certainly know how to dig, these hearty settlers know more about building than fighting, they've never had an army, but they have created a nation in a desert, no one knows how long the British will wait before attacking or indeed why they are waiting.
We can only be grateful for the time to prepare this army in December 1775. Dear mother, we. I have been at this camp for almost five months, a beautiful autumn has come and gone, with all the leaves on the trees, Henry stays outside most of the day and arrives with a bag full of things he has collected from the field of battle, he insists there. There will be a big market for souvenirs from the great battle for Boston and now, as if he didn't have enough on his shoulders, General Washington has a new concern: the enlistment of half the men here is over and many of them are leaving. house in this freezing cold general
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's army is melting before a dangerous enemy man from new hampshire you signed with this army for six months of service that enlistment is already over and you want to go home i can't blame you for that and i can't stop you Go, I'm here to ask you to stay six months ago, you and your neighbors were on that hill, bunker hill, and you fought heroically against a superior force, the enemy is still behind their barricades and they won't leave until we capture them. do it he won't go home but neither did many of your friends and neighbors died in that fight on the hill defending his honor defending an idea that idea is freedom before you go I ask you to think of the men you knew and loved that we will always occupy his post on that hill, then this is Colonel Henry Knox, colonel of artillery.There are 56 British cannons waiting for us at Fort Ticonderoga, captured in the past. May Knox needs men to move those weapons here to Boston to attack the enemy. I need artillery to drive the British out of this city. Who will go? The time has passed when we consider ourselves men from New Hampshire or Virginia. We are Americans and we have to remain as one. Are you with me, Colonel Knox, and cannon promise him it seems? To have convinced at least some of the men to stay, now all they have to do is move them 500 miles over winter mountains somehow since I was there when they captured the cannons.
I'm going back to see how he does it. Will the pigeons come? Here or go to Philadelphia Philadelphia I hope I'm safe. I'm going to visit some of the new recruits from Maine. I want to come. No. I have a task of my own, so promise me you'll introduce me. to dr. franklin when i get to philadelphia it's a promise i have read all the editions of this poor richard zolomon he really used to have a bookstore in boston ah here is poor richard's almanac he never failed to find something useful in these pages, listen to this, if you don't want be forgotten as soon as you're dead and rotten, write things worth reading or do things worth writing, then colonel, you do things and I'll write, okay, okay.
Enough is enough, this is terrible, this show starts Saturday night and you guys will never be ready. General Howe himself will be here and he has issued a special invitation to General Washington himself to come and bring his own noose, take it from Reggie's chorus, Reggie from above. and for the love of god, you two will decide who is where in the cow suit the yankee doodle came to boston thought he had beaten the tommies he took one look at Cage's guns and ran straight home where mom yankee doodle went to the yankee war doodle dandy thought The British would flee, but he found us both.
Come back here? Oh, who goes there? Ah, skip ahead, James, you say they are planning this entertainment for Saturday night, yes sir, and you were expressly invited to attend. Well, that's a tempting invitation, isn't it? an invitation for us to launch an attack, this is just a quick raid, gentlemen, we don't have enough men for a full attack, bring everything you can carry, especially gunpowder, let's get out, a Yankee doodle came to boston, sorry to interrupt the entertainment, but it appears that General Washington has launched an attack on Bunker Hill. General Washington captured much-needed supplies in his raid and let General Howe know that the Americans would attack without warning.
James's pigeons have all come here instead of flying to Philadelphia and I can't get them to arrive. Leave James has been gone with Colonel Knox for over a month and now I'm starting to worry about them. More new recruits arrive every day and this army becomes stronger every day. What General Washington has done is nothing short of a miracle. I don't say much, but he inspires trust and obedience by the sheer force of his presence. What is it? Those weren't there last night. The British emerge victorious over the Continental Army in Boston in the siege operation.
It's a great victory. Dr. Franklin. Yes, and we needed one. I imagine those redcoats. They are already halfway home I imagine they are halfway to New York This war is far from over but I guess we should celebrate that at least Boston is free It looks like one of James's pigeons Here you are June 28th we arrived in Newark and we should be in new york york tomorrow morning that office is months old where the hell have you been? Bird wherever he's been is probably ready for a nap dr. franklin says we should return to philadelphia as soon as possible what will happen here we will maintain a garrison here but most of the army and new troops from the southern colonies will gather in new york.
How long do you think the war will last? Colonel Knox. I don't know, Sarah, but we have to be ready for as long as it
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