1775 at Lexington green. Reports say the British fired first killing eight patriots. I believe these reports to be true. There was a lot of controversy surrounding this‚ since none of us were there‚ no one can be certain on who fired first. Evidence shows the British fired first. I think based on the evidence provided it was very easy to see the British were the first to fire the shot of the revolution. Paul revere was riding home with Samuel Dawes and William Prescott and noticed the British were
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It was a late night‚ about 1:30 in the early morning. Paul Revere and William Daws were captured right before the battle took place. Taking no time for the colonist to know about the British making a move toward them‚ they were warned by Prescott. Prescott was able to escape the night before. Crossing the Charles River from Boston toward Concord were the British troops‚ on April 15‚ 1775. At 3:05 AM British courier departed from General Gage. Meeting up the marines were the British‚ as they started
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on 19 April 1775 in Middlesex County‚ Providence of Massachusetts Bay within the towns of Lexington‚ Concord‚ Lincoln‚ Menotomy and Cambridge. The Battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. The British Army also set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams
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Simon Bolivar was the reason independence was achieved in the colonies of Northern South America; namely Venezuela. He was unselfishly dedicated to liberating the colony‚ and was not discouraged when a battle was lost or when Spain regained control of his Republics. As each of the three Venezuelan Republics were created and quickly destroyed‚ Bolivar never lost sight of his ultimate goal of independence. His hopes of combining all of South America into one independent nation always remained intact
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Lab Name:Titration of NaOH Author: Simon Sun Lab Partner: Jason Lee & Fiona Wang Date: March 10th & 17th Introduction： The purpose of this lab is to observe the titration between acid and base‚ and calculate the morality of unknown solution base on the volume required to reach equivalence point and stoicheiometry. There are two groups of experiments. The first one is the reaction between nitric acid and sodium hydroxide which is a reaction between strong acid and strong
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Will County was established in Illinois in 1836. From that year on‚ Will County has only grown in size and in numbers. Larger cities like Joliet‚ Lockport and Plainfield stand place in this County. There are also a number of other townships and villages that are spread out throughout the county. However‚ the area was not left untouched from the beginning of time until the year 1836. The Will County area was an established community of Potawatomi tribes and served as a trading route for the fur trade
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The British Colonisation of Australia Timeline: The Aboriginal Australian species originated from Africa approximately 200‚000 years ago and migrated to Asia 70‚000 years ago then continued to Australia 50‚000 years ago. Before 1788 only the Indigenous people of Australia - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders‚ populated Australia. In 1788 Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of Australia and Torres Strait Islanders lived on the islands between Australian and Papua New Guinea
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Start with why (2011) by author Simon Sinek In this book Simon Sinek asks the question why certain companies or people are more innovative‚ inspiring and successful than others. He codifies this pattern they use for their success and calls it the golden circle. What we found less interesting: The manipulation of companies to make consumption of products lager en the techniques used for this. This is something that has been discussed in the media a lot. The parts we found more interesting: The
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After WW2‚ in South East Asia there was a high risk of spread of communism. In America’s opinion‚ South East Asia countries were like dominoes: if one of them turned communism‚ others would follow its example. This is why in 1954 President Eisenhower decided to support South Vietnam in order to stop the spread of communism. By 1963 there were 17000 US advisors in South Vietnam. At that time the president of Vietnam was Diem‚ disliked by the most of the population‚ especially Buddhists which were
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The article “The British PoW who broke into Auschwitz – and survived” by Jake Wallis Simons‚ in my opinion‚ was underwhelming and did not quite do justice to the actions taken by Denis Avery. The issue I had with the article was the lack of detail in various parts of the story. For example‚ while Simons goes into extensive detail about Avery’s personality and actions to get into Auschwitz‚ he glosses over other parts‚ like the information that Avery received in the camp. Only a couple short paragraphs
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