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    Give Me Liberty: 24 Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution
    Give Me Liberty: 24 Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution
    Give Me Liberty: 24 Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution
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    Give Me Liberty: 24 Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution

    By Hank Kellner

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    Most Americans are familiar with such Revolutionary War heroes and heroines as Crispus Attucks, Molly Pitcher, Paul Revere, and Nathan Hale. History tells us, however, that those are but a handful of the hundreds of lesser-known patriots who joined the struggle for liberty against the British that lasted from 1775 to 1783.
    Deborah Sampson, for example, donned men’s clothing; assumed the name Robert Shurtleff; enlisted in the Continental Army; and fought in several battles as a man. After she was wounded in battle, a surgeon finally discovered her true identity. At the end of the war General George Washington himself authorized her discharge from the army.
    John Honeyman was a former soldier in the British Army during the French and Indian War who risked his life as a spy for General Washington. During one memorable episode, he penetrated the British defenses and gained the confidence of the enemy. While posing as a British spy, he gathered information for the Americans. The information he gathered helped the Americans defeat the Hessian troops stationed in Newark, New Jersey
    Oscar Marion was the first African-American veteran of the Revolutionary War to be honored at Arlington National Cemetery. As a child he grew up as a slave on a plantation in South Carolina, where he is said to have been playmates with Francis Marion. When war broke out, Oscar joined the 2nd Continental Regiment of South Carolina and served as an aide to his former playmate, General Francis Marion. At the same time, Oscar fought as a common soldier in at east three major battles. Ironically, after the war ended, Oscar Marion was never granted his freedom.
    T hose are but three of the twenty-four Revolutionary War patriots whose exploits this work presents. Note that the descriptions are not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, they are intended to present highlights in the lives of the subjects. Readers who want to find out more will discover much additional information on the Internet, as well as in printed works. A selected bibliography provides several books the reader will find useful.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHank Kellner
    Release dateSep 4, 2013
    ISBN9781301551972
    Give Me Liberty: 24 Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution
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    Hank Kellner

    Hank Kellner is a veteran of the Korean War and a retired associate professor of English currently based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of 125 Photos for English Composition Classes (J. Weston Walch, 1978); How to Be a Better Photographer (J. Weston Walch, 1978); Write What You See (Prufrock Press, 2010); and, with co-author Elizabeth Guy, Reflect and Write: 300 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing (Prufrock Press, 2013).

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      Give Me Liberty - Hank Kellner

      GIVE ME LIBERTY

      24 Heroes and Heroines

      of the

      American Revolution

      by Hank Kellner

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 by Hank Kellner

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      Contents

      Abraham Clark: America’s Revolutionary Conscience

      Nancy Hart: America’s Super Heroine

      Salem Poor: America’s Hero of Bunker Hill

      Rachel and Grace Martin: America’s Intrepid Sisters-in-Law

      General Daniel Morgan: America’s Master Strategist

      Edward Ned Hector: America’s Heroic Teamster

      Lieutenant Colonel William Barton: America’s Hero in Exile

      Private Robert Shurtleff: America’s First Woman Soldier

      James Armistead: America’s Slave-Spy

      Sergeant Ezra Lee: America’s First Submariner

      Captain Alan McLane: America’s Hero on Land and Sea

      Sergeant Major John Champe: America’s Secret Kidnapper

      Oscar Marion: America’s Loyal Volunteer

      Peter Francisco: America’s Paul Bunyan of the South

      Captain James Mugford, Jr.: America’s Defender on the High Seas

      Molly Ludwig Hays: America’s Woman Sergeant

      John Honeyman: America’s Unknown Spy

      Captain John Barry: America’s First Commissioned Naval Officer

      General William Moultrie: America’s National Hero

      Crispus Attucks: America’s Runaway Slave Hero

      Prudence Prue Wright: America’s Militia Commander

      Benjamin Tallmadge: America’s Master Spy

      John Brown: America’s Lawyer Hero

      Mad Ann Trotter Bailey: America’s Eccentric Heroine

      Introduction

      Most Americans are familiar with such Revolutionary War heroes and heroines as Crispus Attucks, Molly Pitcher, Paul Revere, and Nathan Hale. History tells us, however, that those are but a handful of the hundreds of lesser-known patriots who joined the struggle for liberty against the British that lasted from 1775 to 1783.

      Deborah Sampson, for example, donned men’s clothing; assumed the name Robert Shurtleff; enlisted in the Continental Army; and fought in several battles as a man. After she was wounded in battle, a surgeon finally discovered her true identity. At the end of the war, General George Washington himself authorized her discharge from the army.

      John Honeyman was a former soldier in the British Army during the French and Indian War who risked his life as a spy for General Washington. During one memorable episode, he penetrated the British defenses and gained the confidence of the enemy. While posing as a British spy, he gathered information for the Americans. The information he gathered helped the Colonists defeat the Hessian troops stationed in Newark, New Jersey

      Oscar Marion was the first African-American veteran of the Revolutionary War to be honored at Arlington National Cemetery. As a child he grew up as a slave on a plantation in South Carolina, where he is said to have been playmates with Francis Marion. When war broke out, Oscar joined the 2nd Continental Regiment of South Carolina and served as an aide to his former playmate, General Francis Marion. At the same time, Oscar fought as a common soldier in at east three major battles. Ironically, after the war ended, he was never granted his freedom.

      Those are but three of the twenty-four Revolutionary War patriots whose exploits this work presents. Note that the descriptions are not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, they are intended to present highlights in the lives of the subjects. Readers who want to find out more will discover much additional information on the Internet, as well as in printed works. A selected bibliography provides several books the reader will find useful.

      Abraham Clark: America’s Revolutionary Conscience

      When the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence in July and August of 1776 stepped up to fix their signatures to America’s most important document, they could not have known that all of them would suffer great privations as a result of their courageous actions. For the most part, they were young, prosperous, successful, and prominent in their own communities. Eleven were merchants, nine were large landowners, twenty-four were lawyers and jurists, and the rest were doctors and career politicians. Fifty-four of the men had wives and children; all of them had a great deal to lose.

      Against these men and the 10,000-man Continental Army supported by a poorly armed and trained militia stood 42,000 British marines and soldiers backed by the world’s greatest empire: nine million people whose navy ruled the seas. Little wonder, then, that the American patriots were grim-faced as they affixed their signatures to the parchment.

      One of the five men from New Jersey who signed was Abraham Clark, a dour, sensible man who was born in 1720. Clark had once read law but was never admitted to the bar. Nevertheless, he was able to give legal advice to the local townspeople who elected him High Sheriff of Essex County and Clerk of the Colonial Assembly at Perth Amboy. Finally, because of his strong opposition

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